Old Radar Station
Old Radar Station is a memorial in Looe, South Cornwall, England. Old Radar Station is situated nearby to the park Wooldown, as well as near Barbican Post Office.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Old Guildhall, Looe and Looe railway station.
Old Guildhall, Looe
Museum
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Old Guildhall is a municipal building in Higher Market Street in Looe, Cornwall, England. The structure, which is currently used as a museum, is a Grade II* listed building. Old Guildhall, Looe is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Old Radar Station.
Looe railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Looe railway station serves the twin towns of East and West Looe, in Cornwall, England. The station is the terminus of the scenic Looe Valley Line 8+3⁄4 miles south of Liskeard. It faces out across the estuary of the River Looe. Looe railway station is situated 2,200 feet northwest of Old Radar Station.
St Mary’s Church
Church
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Mary's Church is a former Church of England parish church in Looe, Cornwall. St Mary’s Church is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Old Radar Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plaidy and West Looe.
Plaidy
Suburb
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plaidy is an eastern suburb of Looe, Cornwall, England, UK. Plaidy Beach is a sandy beach and Millendreath Beach is at its eastern end. The writer Eleanor Hibbert lived near Plaidy Beach during World War II and used it as the basis for one of her pen names, Jean Plaidy.
Millendreath
Locality
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millendreath is a hamlet in the parish of St Martin-by-Looe, Cornwall, England, situated two miles east of the town of Looe. A station was to be built at Millendreath as part of the proposed St Germans & Looe Railway in the late 1930s, but the railway was abandoned without the station having been built.
Old Radar Station
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “An old radar station used during the Second World War, now used as a seating area.”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Looe, South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.35557° or 50° 21′ 20″ northLongitude
-4.4495° or 4° 26′ 58″ westOpen location code
9C2Q9H42+65OpenStreetMap ID
node 6819328871OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Wooldown and Barbican Post Office.
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