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RRH Portreath
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RRH Portreath is a Remote Radar Head operated by the Royal Air Force. It is situated at Nancekuke Common on the clifftops to the north of Portreath beach and southwest of Porthtowan in Cornwall. Its radar (housed in a golf ball protective dome) provides long-range coverage of the south western approaches to the UK.
Called RAF Portreath, the base was built during 1940, opened in March 1941 and had a varied career during World War II, initially as a Fighter Command station, from October 1941 as a ferry stop-over for aircraft bound to/from North Africa and the Middle East, as a temporary stop-over for USAAF and RCAF units, and then as a Coastal Command station. By the end of the war, it had run down and in May 1950 was handed back to the government by the RAF.
It reverted to its local name Nancekuke and became an outstation of CDE Porton Down.
The site re-opened as a manned radar station in October 1980, a Control and Reporting Post for UK Air Surveillance, until it was converted to remote operation in the late nineties. Portreath's parent station was RAF St. Mawgan for administration but data was routed to RAF Neatishead.
- Smith, G (2000). Devon and Cornwall airfields in the Second World War. Countryside Books, 288pp, ISBN 1-85306-632-X.
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