RAF Ash

RAF Ash
Located near Sandwich in Kent
RAF Ash
Coordinates	51°16′08″N 1°17′41″E / 51.2689°N 1.2947°E / 51.2689; 1.2947
Type	Underground control centre and radar station
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Controlled by	Royal Air Force
Site history
Built	1939 (1939)
In use	1939-1998

RAF Ash (formerly RAF Sandwich) was an RAF underground control centre and radar station situated near the village of Woodnesborough, Kent, England.

History

RAF Sandwich was originally a Ground Controlled Interception (GCI) site situated in Ash Road, Sandwich. However, after the Second World War the area was chosen for one of a chain of ROTOR air defence radar stations and the site was relocated to an underground bunker 1.5 miles to the south-west in Marshborough Road, Ash, the new site being renamed RAF Ash.

RAF Ash was closed and the site sold in July 1998.^[1] It is now used as a secure server farm by The Bunker, an Internet hosting company.^[2]

References

↑ "House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 2 Dec 1999 (pt 5)". www.publications.parliament.uk. 1999-12-02. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
↑ "Ash – The Bunker Secure Hosting". www.thebunker.net. Retrieved 2011-01-29.

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