Installation Overview --RAF Menwith Hill,Yorkshire Dales,England

By Rod Powers, About.com Guide

RAF Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire which provides communications and intelligence support services to the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The site contains an extensive satellite ground station and is a communications intercept and missile warning site and has been described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world.

The mission of RAF Menwith Hill, which is a U.S. Air Force installation, is to provide rapid radio relay and conduct communications research. Much of the station consists of an antenna field with the land beneath the antennas sublet to local farmers for grazing. The land is owned by the Ministry of Defense and leased to the United States Government.

RAF Menwith Hill does not have an official website.

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