| La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Arrondissement: | Le Havre |
| Canton: | Octeville-sur-Mer |
| Insee: | 76508 |
| Postal Code: | 76280 |
| Intercommunality: | Le Havre Seine Métropole |
| Coordinates: | 49.6722°N 0.1892°W |
| Elevation M: | 105 |
| Elevation Min M: | 0 |
| Elevation Max M: | 114 |
| Area Km2: | 5.81 |
La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
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-d’Antifer and evacuated by the Bruneval beach on 27/28 February 1942. On 6 June 1944, small boats simulated an invasion fleet headed towards the area as part of Operation Taxable.[1]
A farming village in the Pays de Caux, some 12miles 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.