GCHQ Bude, also known as GCHQ Composite Signals Organisation Station Morwenstow, abbreviated to GCHQ CSO Morwenstow, is a UK Government satellite ground station and eavesdropping centre located on the north Cornwall coast at Cleave Camp, between the small villages of Morwenstow and Coombe. It is operated by the British signals intelligence service, officially known as the Government Communications Headquarters, commonly abbreviated GCHQ. It is located on part of the site of the former World War II airfield, RAF Cleave.
Part of the satellite dish array of GCHQ Bude
Remains of gun emplacement with GCHQ Bude dishes behind
The different types satellite receivers at GCHQ Bude; including 'naked' parabolic antennas along with hidden antenna covered by a radome.
Facing east, sunrise at GCHQ Bude
Morwenstow is a civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish abuts the west coast, about six miles (10 km) north of Bude and within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Morwenstow
Morwenstow Vicarage
St John's holy well
The gateway of Tonacombe manor