RAF Culmhead

RAF Culmhead RAF Church Stanton
Churchstanton, Somerset in England
The old control tower taken in 2006
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Coordinates	50°55′46″N 003°07′42″W / 50.92944°N 3.12833°W / 50.92944; -3.12833
Type	Royal Air Force station
Code	UC[1]
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force Royal Navy
Controlled by	RAF Fighter Command 1941-44 * No. 10 Group RAF RAF Flying Training Command 1944- * No. 23 Group RAF[1]
Site history
Built	1941 (1941)
In use	August 1941 – August 1946 (1946)
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation	263 metres (863 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 02/20 1,320 metres (4,331 ft) Concrete 08/26 1,025 metres (3,363 ft) Concrete 14/32 1,190 metres (3,904 ft) Concrete

Royal Air Force Culmhead or more simply RAF Culmhead is a former Royal Air Force station, situated at Churchstanton on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset, England. It was originally named RAF Church Stanton.

It had three tarmac runways that are now in poor condition and the control towers are currently derelict. There is now an industrial estate – derived from the later Composite Signals Organisation Station (CSOS) – right in the middle of the place where the three runways meet.^[2]