From 1939 to 1954 this piece of moor played a key role in World War 2.
This site detected and led to the shooting down of the first enemy aircraft to fall on England on 3rd February 1940, a Heinkel 111which later crashed at Bannial Flatt Farm near Whitby.
This website covers the layout of the site in a lot more details
Danby Beacon Radar Station
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The world demands to see the site of the infamous Boro anti-aircraft incident.
Its already here !
http://www.hidden-teesside.co.uk/2007/01/14/coastal-battery-s0005918/
That was back in January!? Blimey – how time flies.
One beacon was left standing after they demolished the rest. As a teenager in 1957 we atempted to climb it but chickend out due to the height. the ladders were wood .Years earlier my Father taxied a RAF officer from Guisborough rail station to the camp. I accompanied him & remember the camp barrier on Poverty Hill