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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Fylingdales
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Isolated spot in the North York Moors national park which became in the early 1960s the site of the government's Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station. Three eerily beautiful geodesic domes, visible for miles around, were designed to give a four-minute warning of nuclear attack from the USSR. Both the technology and the threat were obsolete by the early 1990s. In 1992 English Heritage mounted an unsuccessful campaign to prevent the demolition of the 'radomes'.
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