Former GCHQ/MOD Listening Post, Hawklaw

 military, closed / former military

Hawklaw, Cupar, Fife, has been the site of a number of intelligence gathering listening stations. Hawklaw is believed to have become a Foreign Office listening station during 1942. After the war, right up until 1988 when it was decommissoned.

Aerial photographs taken in 1946 and 1948 show that there was an array of at least 20 aerial masts on the rise to the north and northwest of the site buildings. Records indicate that the station was designated as an Intercept Y Listening Station, used to monitor German naval coded traffic in connection with the World War II codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, England.

There are planning proposals in place for the remaining buildings to be converted for residential use.

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www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/Hawklaw
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