Haseley Knob Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post
Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post at Haseley. Monitoring posts were to be used for reporting nuclear bursts and monitoring fall-out in the modern period. The post lies in fields 200m north of Rouncil Lane, Haseley.
1 The primary role of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was the recognition and identification of hostile aircraft. With the start of the cold war and the increasing threat of nuclear attack in the 1950’s, the ROC was given the added responsibility of reporting nuclear bursts and monitoring fall-out which necessitated the construction of 1563 underground monitoring posts throughout Great Britain & Northern Ireland.
Opened November 1964. Closed September 1991.
On the wset side of a public footpath and north of a field boundary, 200 yards north of Rouncil Lane. The landowner did not like the ROC and demolished the post shorlty after closure.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
Add a comment about this page