Capenhurst
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| Capenhurst | |
  Capenhurst shown within Cheshire |
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| Population | 237 (2001 Census)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | |
| District | Chester |
| Shire county | Cheshire |
| Region | North West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CHESTER |
| Postcode district | CH1 |
| Dialling code | 0151 |
| Police | Cheshire |
| Fire | Cheshire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| European Parliament | North West England |
| UK Parliament | City of Chester |
| List of places: UK • England • Cheshire | |
Capenhurst is a village and civil parish in Chester District, Cheshire, England and located on the Wirral Peninsula to the south west of the town of Ellesmere Port. According to the 2001 Census, Capenhurst had a population of 237.[1]
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[edit] History
Capenhurst was a township in Shotwick Parish of the Wirral Hundred and included parts of the hamlets of Dunkirk and Two Mills. The population was 147 in 1801, 148 in 1851, 159 in 1901 and 253 in 1951. [2]
[edit] Description
Capenhurst is home to a uranium enrichment plant owned by Urenco Group. It has its own railway station, on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network. The local amateur football team play in the Carlsberg West Cheshire League.
[edit] Capenhurst tower
In 1999, Channel 4 and Duncan Campbell revealed that a fifty metre high tower on the premises of the uranium enrichment plant had been used to intercept telephone calls transmitted by microwave between the British Telecom towers at Gwaenysgor, Clwyd, and Pale Heights, near Chester. The tower was built during 1989 and 1990 to intercept phone calls between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. (A temporary listening post had previously been placed on the roof of the plant during 1988.) The main route for phone calls between Ireland and the UK was via the submarine fibre optic cable UK-Ireland 1 which reached the UK at Holyhead, Anglesey. From there the signals were transmitted by microwave. Phone calls were monitored by GCHQ until 1998 when the Irish telecomunication system was changed.[3][4]
The tower was demolished in 2004 because the government could not find a buyer.
[edit] References
- ^ a b 2001 Census: Capenhurst. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved on 18 November 2007.
- ^ Cheshire Towns & Parishes: Capenhurst. GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy. Retrieved on 23 August 2007.
- ^ How Britain Eavesdropped on Dublin. Duncan Campbell, The Independent (UK newspaper). The Center for Public Integrity (16 July 1999). Retrieved on 3 July 2006.
- ^ Government tapping of phone calls between UK and Ireland challenged. The Guardian (UK newspaper) (31 May 2000). Retrieved on 3 July 2006.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Photos of tower (including satellite)
- Alan Turnbull's page on the tower
- Richard Lamont's page on the tower
- hackHull? - Capenhurst Tower
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