PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - RAF Mildenhall Closure?
View Single Post
Old 16th Feb 2020, 07:59
  #44 (permalink)  
Asturias56
 
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Ferrara
Posts: 8,464
Received 364 Likes on 213 Posts
Originally Posted by Whenurhappy
not quite true...

AWE Aldermaston is exactly 4 miles directly east of the old threshold at Greenham - Burghfield is 8 nm ENE ........ doesn't matter any way as it's the runway has all been ploughed up and the place converted to a nature reserve.

https://www.bbowt.org.uk/nature-rese...ookham-commons

they've kept the old Tower (now a museum) and the south side is a Business Park. The old cruise missile bunkers are still there and are used for storage (and for shooting Star Wars etc). The trust that owns most of it uses the commercial income for good causes

https://greenhamtrust.com/

Greenham Common - Homepage
Asturias56 is offline