La Poterie-Cap-dâÂÂAntifer is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. It is located within the Seine-Maritime department.
During World War II, Operation Biting (also known as the Bruneval Raid) was a successful Combined Operations raid to capture components of a German Würzburg radar set at La Poterie-Cap-dâÂÂAntifer and evacuated by the Bruneval beach on 27/28 February 1942. On 6 June 1944, small boats called Harbour Defense Motor Launches (HDML) simulated an invasion fleet headed towards the area as part of Operation Taxable. Today, it is a peaceful place full of tranquility.
A farming village in the Pays de Caux, some north of Le Havre, at the junction of the D111 and D950 roads. The commune borders the English Channel and has a beach and some spectacular limestone cliffs. It has a small port nearby. This port does receive much traffic.<mapframe latitude="49.644068" longitude="0.41748" zoom="2" text="This is a map of the surrounding area." width="200" height="243" align="left" />It is nearby the city of Le havre as shown on the map.