This is the site of a modern aviation radio direction beacon, operated by National Air Traffic Services.  The site has been used since the 1950s for radio beacons providing navigation information for civil aircraft.


The Ordnance Survey 1:10560 scale mapping published in 1958 shows a central mast next to a technical building, around which four more masts are marked to the NW, NE, SE and SW, at a distance of approximately 80 m.  The concrete foundation pads of the northerly masts have been removed, but the southern pair survive.  The historical mapping bears the annotation, 'Automatic Wireless Transmitting Direction-finding Station (Aircraft) (Min[istry] of Trans[port] & Civ[il] Av[iation])'.


The mast array was for many years replaced by a low-level arrangement known locally as the 'Bandstand', which itself is in the process of being partially dismantled and replaced (as of 2021).