Picture: RAF Holmpton operating in the 1970's as a Master Comprehensive Radar Station

  • Updated 30th March 2008
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  • OFFICIAL HISTORY DETAILS
  • LINK TO HISTORY PAGES

  The Station Badge of RAF Patrington (Now Holmpton)

  • Royal Air Force HOLMPTON started life as Royal Air Force PATRINGTON and cherishes a long history of service dating from WWII to the present day.
  • To do this subject justice we are pleased to present a Comprehensive (web) History Section researched and presented by Nick Catford who has added a great deal of information about the sites history with particular reference to it's early days operating as a Radar Station.
  • There are many pictures and diagrams, along with a section on the Domestic Site Accommodation at Patrington
  • The HIPPO team has been only too pleased to provide additional material for this fascinating and comprehensive Official History.
  • (Additional material was added to the History Pages in December 2007)

     Click HERE to view

The History Site is provided with the full consent and co-operation of the HIPPO Team - It is the ONLY official history site relating to RAF Holmpton published on the web & any information contained on other non-official sites should not be relied upon for accuracy.

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