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RAF Portland
RAF Portland is a former Royal Air Force radar station on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. The station is situated in the Verne area. The station, which sits near the cliff edge overlooking East Weares, is now the site of the community farm and tourist attraction Fancy's Family Farm. The vast radar installations once on site were set up in the early 1950s as part of Britain's Cold War defences.〔 At 70 feet below ground level the site's bunker was the deepest Rotor underground facility.
In November 2004, the site became scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 because it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance.
==Design==
The site comprises an irregular enclosure surrounded by fencing with an entrance and guardhouse on the west side. The main guardroom is a single storey, stone-built structure which provided access to the underground bunker. The bunker contained the control centre for the Rotor site. The interior of the bunker was divided into a number of working areas. A large reservoir provided the original water supply for the control centre. The site also contained seven radar towers, now dismantled. The operations block was constructed of reinforced concrete - designed to withstand 2,000 lb bombs. The guardhouses were designed to resemble bungalows.〔
The bunker still contains much its original air conditioning plant, fans, mains transformer, blast doors, electrical switchgear and rotary converters. There is more equipment than in any other surviving R1 or R2 ROTOR bunker. It is the only rotor bunker to retain its original 'Phase 1' layout with an upper floor gallery overlooking the CFP floor. There is remaining soot from the fire in the 1960s in places, and the main operations and mapping room is the most damaged with no flooring remains and a lot of water.〔
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