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Description Radar research memorial at St Aldhelm's Head on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
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Camera location50° 34′ 43.92″ N, 2° 03′ 21.66″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

The memorial was unveiled by Sir Bernard Lovell on 27th October 2001, and re-dedicated by him in September 2006.[1]

The plaque on memorial reads:

THIS MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES
THE RADAR RESEARCH
CARRIED OUT AT
WORTH MATRAVERS
FROM 1940 - 1942
WHICH WAS CRUCIAL TO
THE WINNING OF THE WAR
AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN
TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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