RRH Buchan
Remote Radar Head Buchan or RRH Buchan is an air defence radar station operated by the Royal Air Force. It is located at Stirling Hill, 3.2 kilometres south of Peterhead on the Aberdeenshire coast of northeast Scotland.Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Military installation
- Description: Royal Air Force air defence radar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Remote Radar Head Buchan”
- Address: Longhaven, Peterhead
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Buchan Ness Lighthouse and Peterhead Power Station.
Buchan Ness Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buchan Ness lighthouse is a lighthouse in Boddam, Aberdeenshire. Scotland. The area around the headland of Buchan Ness was for many centuries the point from which trading and whaling voyages departed across open ocean, bound for Archangel, Greenland and Spitsbergen amongst other destinations. Buchan Ness Lighthouse is situated 1½ miles northeast of RRH Buchan.
Peterhead Power Station
Power station
Photo: PortHenry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Peterhead Power Station is a multi-unit station owned and operated by SSE plc, with a capacity of 2,177 MW. It is located near Boddam and the A90, just south of Peterhead, in Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland. Peterhead Power Station is situated 1½ miles northeast of RRH Buchan.
Brethren Meeting House
Church
Photo: Seasider53, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brethren Meeting House is a Category C listed building at 26 Gordon Street in Boddam, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was formerly a late-Victorian-era Wesleyan church. Brethren Meeting House is situated 1½ miles northeast of RRH Buchan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boddam and Buchan Ness.
Boddam
Village
Photo: Alan Jamieson, CC BY 2.0.
Boddam is a coastal village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is 29 miles north of Aberdeen and 3 miles south of Peterhead. The settlement of Stirling Village lies immediately to the west.
Buchan Ness
Locality
Buchan Ness is a bridged island that is connected to the village of Boddam on mainland Scotland by a road running over a short causeway. In 2022 the census recorded a permanent population on the island of a single individual. Buchan Ness is situated 1½ miles northeast of RRH Buchan.
Bullers of Buchan
Hamlet
Photo: hayley green, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The name Bullers of Buchan refers both to a collapsed sea cave and to the adjacent village, situated about 6 miles south of Peterhead in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Bullers of Buchan is situated 2 miles south of RRH Buchan.
RRH Buchan
- Category: military radar station
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.45868° or 57° 27′ 31″ northLongitude
-1.81174° or 1° 48′ 42″ westOperator
Royal Air ForceOpen location code
9C9WF55Q+F8OpenStreetMap ID
way 1082533101OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryOpenStreetMap feature
military=baseWikidata ID
Q7277635
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In Other Languages
From French to Japanese—“RRH Buchan” goes by many names.
- French: “RRH Buchan”
- Japanese: “バカン空軍基地”
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