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The station's title, Royal Air Force Station High Wycombe, was officially approved on 1 January 1969. [4] From 1983 to 1984 there was a peace camp protesting against the building of a bunker there at that time to house RAF Strike Command.
American military forces were first stationed at High Wycombe in 1942, shortly after the United States' formal entrance into the Second World War.So urgent was the action that Wycombe Abbey School, situated on the land that would become the station, was given three weeks to find new facilities; failure in this effort led to the school's closing, until the independent girls' school was returned ...
Between 1983 and 1985 there was a peace camp outside RAF High Wycombe station. [1] This was to protest about the RAF bunker on National Trust land designated a place of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. There is also a water reservoir which was constructed at the same time.
RAF High Wycombe is inside the village, to the north-east. The Strike Command Operations Centre (STCOC) formerly the Primary War Headquarters (PWHQ) bunker was built by RAF Strike Command on the National Trust land to the north east of the village between 1983 and 1985, in spite of opposition including a peace camp.
near (High Wycombe), now Wycombe Air Park: RAF Boreham: JM England Essex: 1944 1945 RAF Boscombe Down: BD England Wiltshire: 1917 2001 Airfield retained by the Ministry of Defence but operated by private contractor QinetiQ as MOD Boscombe Down. Home to the Aircraft Test and Evaluation Centre and Empire Test Pilots School (ETPS). RAF Bottesford ...
Naphill borders the ancient parishes of Bradenham, North Dean, and West Wycombe. Whilst a village in its own right, it is part of the Parish of Hughenden, and is located around the former border between two ancient British tribes, the Catuvellauni and the Atrebates. It is close to the ancient feature Grimm's Ditch.
RAF High Wycombe, (Closed by SAC 1965, Operated by USAFE til1 1992 and currently US Navy) RAF Lakenheath (Active) RAF Little Rissington (Closed by USAFE 1993) RAF Lindholme (Attached to RAF Brize Norton – closed by SAC – 1962) RAF Manston (Closed by USAFE 1961) RAF Marham (SAC deployments ended 1966) RAF Membury, (Closed by SAC 1954)
Wycombe Abbey is a private girls' boarding and day school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. The school was founded in 1896 by Dame Frances Dove (1847–1942), who was previously headmistress of St Leonards School in Scotland. Its present capacity is approximately 650 girls, aged 11 to 18. [3] The current headmistress is Jo Duncan.