Communication Sites

Table showing what the numbers on the map represent.

Number Name Location Purpose

1 RAF Buchany Nr. Stirling Radar Site

Control Reporting Centre

2 RAF Boulmer Nr. Alnwick Radar Site

Air- Sea rescue

3 RAF Fylingdales Nr. Whitby BMEWS

Part of son of Star Wars

4 Irton Moor Nr. Scarborough SIGINT intercept station

Part of GCHQ

5 RAF Menwith Hill Nr. Harrogate NSA run

Communications interception

ECHELON collection site

6 RN Forest Moor Nr. Harrogate Ship to Shore communications

Including to submarines

7 RAF Digby Nr. Lincoln SIGINT interception station

NSA, GCHQ links

8 RAF Waddington Nr. Lincoln Electronic Warfare Operational Support Establishment

9 RAF Wyton

RAF Brampton

RAF Alconbury

RAF Molesworth
Nr. Huntingdon Joint HQ Logistic Command

Joint Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre

Imagery Interpretation

US European Command

10 Poundon

RAF Croughton
Nr. Bicester SIGINT Intercept Station - GCHQ

Satellite tracking station - USAF

Scope command Automated High Frequency Radio

11 RAF Neatishead Nr. Norwich Control Reporting Centre

12 RAF Feltwell Nr. Thetford Near Space Tracking Facility

USSPACECOM

13 USAF Mildenhall

Nr. Bury St. Edmunds Home to US reconnaissance aircraft in UK

14 RAF Chicksands Nr. Bedford British National Intelligence Centre

15 Empress Building, Earls Court

Palmer St

RAF Northwood

RAF Uxbridge
London GCHQ ILC cable and telex intercept office, GCHQ

Maritime Reconnaissance Force

HQ Military Air Traffic Operations

16 RAF Oakhanger Nr. Alton Military Satellite Communications

NATO satellite ground terminal

17 RAF Fairford Nr. Cirencester US Air Force

18 RAF High Wycombe High Wycombe HQ Strike command

19 RAF Hythe Nr Southampton " Storage and Support"

20 RAF Rudloe Manor Nr. Bath MOD Defence Communications Network HQ

21 RAF Portreath Nr. Redruth Navigation Air Defence Radar Station

22 RAF St Mawgan Nr. Newquay Signals

23 Morwenstow Nr. Bude Satellite ground station

GCHQ, NSA

24 Cheltenham GCHQ Cheltenham HQ UK SIGINT operations

25 RAF Boddington Nr. Cheltenham Telegraph Automatic Routing Equipment HQ

Military attached to GCHQ

26 Defford Nr. Worcester Signals

27 RAF Benbecula Western Isles Radar Site

28 RAF Saxa Vord Orkney Radar Site

29 Baldock Nr. Royston GCHQ linked

30 Beaumanor/ Garrett’s Hey Nr. Loughborough Military Communications

31 Blakehill Nr. Cricklade GCHQ, NSA

32 Culmhead Nr. Church Stanton GCHQ

33 Edzell Nr. Aberdeen US Navy, NSA link

34 Hawkclaw Nr. Fife GCHQ

35 Wincombe Nr. Shaftesbury NSA

Notes

Some of the information in this table maybe out of date, as the information has come from a variety of sources.

For the best information on a particular antenna array (system) look in "Jane’s Military Communications" it is a yearly published book, available in main libraries in the reference section. Go back in time with the books as there was more information printed in the past.

Look on the web, as there is a lot of information out there...

www.fas.org

www.menwithhill.ukf.net

www.fylingdales.ukf.net

Key

BMEWS - Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station

GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters

HQ - Headquarters

MOD - Ministry of Defence

NATO - North Atlantic treaty Organization

NSA - National Security Agency

SIGINT - Signals Intelligence