The Royal Observer Corps

 67 Post Veryan

Welcome to Veryan ROC Post

The post is spectacularly sited fifty metres from 200 foot high cliffs on Nare Head and set within the beautiful Cornish Heritage Coastline

Veryan Post was the very first  Cornish aircraft reporting post  to be opened in January 1940. The post was set on top of Carne Beacon one mile inland and was designated T2 Post, part of No 20 Group Truro.

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The post was   equipped with high frequency radio for communication with aircraft lost or in distress.  In 1942 a satellite post was set up at Perbargus Point. In 1953 the Post was re-designated F1 as part of No 11 Group Truro. 

  In July 1963 the post was re-sited to its  present position on Nare Head and the old post on Carne Beacon was discontinued.  Also in 1963 the underground post was built, the aircraft role was discontinued, and the nuclear role commenced.  The post continued in this role until general stand down in September 1991 when the post closed. The site then reverted to the National Trust.  The post was leased from the Trust by the Truro Branch of the ROCA in October 1995 and opened as a post museum in July 1996. To date over 1000 visitors have been to the post and all have been fascinated at this insight into the Cold War era. The post has also been the subject of visits by TV companies, national and local radio and the press.

VERYAN POST MUSEUM

Surface :- The post is situated  on  National   Trust land at Nare  Head. The Cornish Coastal footpath runs by the post. Public  access  is  thus available at  all  times.

Below :-  Visits  to   see  the  underground  post  may only be made by prior appointment.  See Below.

No public transport is available to the post site.  Access by car is only possible via narrow lanes to the National Trust Car Park. Thereafter access is by foot only and is some ten minutes walk from the car park.

Visits to the post are free of charge to all ROCA and ex-ROC members.  Other visitors may be charged a nominal fee.  All visitors may make a small donation to Post Museum Funds.

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How to find the Post

     Take the A3078 from Truro, or the A390, then  B3287  from  St  Austell, to  Tregony 

From Tregony take the A3078 for St Mawes.  After two miles turn left signed for Veryan.  Keep on this road.  After approximately two and a half miles turn left signed to Portloe & Trewartha.  Go straight on at the crossroads.  Half a mile after the crossroads turn left up a narrow road signed ‘Nare Head’.  Keep on this road for threequarters of a mile until you reach Kiberick Cove.  Park in the National Trust Car Park on the right.  Walk out of the car park and turn right onto an un-metalled road.  Go over the cattle grid, turning right uphill.  Curve left at the end of the field, still on the track.  Go through the gate and over the cattle grid at the top of the field by the National Trust marker ‘Nare Head’.  The post can be seen some 80 metres straight ahead.

Open Days scheduled to date:

14 May 1830 to 2030

14 June 11.00 to 12.30 and 1330 to 15.00 hrs.

12 July  11.00 to 1230 and 1330 to 1500 hrs.

16 Aug  1100  to  1230 and 1330 to 1500 hrs.

5   Sept  1100 to 1230 hrs.