There’s a relic of the Cold War on the B3269 in the shape of a Royal Observation Corps post 100 or so metres down the track leading to Castledore Barn. It can be found in a small rectangular compound at the end of a line of telegraph poles.
The Royal Observer Corps was a civil defence organisation involved with for the detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain. It was active between 1925 and 1995.
Sold in 2003, the post was built in 1961 and decommissioned in 1991. It’s now locked, the surface features are intact, the green paint is flaking and the hatch rusty and partly detached. The access gate in the wall beside the road is wired up and overgrown.
Internally the post is thought to contain a table, shelf, several cupboards, a sloping table, bed ends, battery box, fire blanket box, car spotlight and some telephone wiring. One observation said there was an inch or so water on the floor.
For further information go to the Subterrania Brittanica website: