Wittering 5 mile runway -- is it true?

[gbh]

Bomb dump currently up for public sale as 'secure storage area'!

Try also 52 44 03.2N 00 53 32.6W for missile launch blast walls at Melton Mowbray. This small part of our history sadly neglected and decaying.

[Brain Potter]

3 x Thor IRBM sites are more intact at North Luffenham:

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.63....8&r=0&src=msl

but even worse at Hemswell:

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.40....9&r=0&src=msl

[Wader2]

Originally Posted by Gainesy

It is a bomb dump, or it was when I was stationed there.
Twas full of 1,000lb ers. The other, covered over, bomb dump, just to the south west of the runway is (or was) the RAF Armament Support Unit for servicing nuke warheads.

There were three bomb dumps at Wittering. One was the SSA whose name escapes me, the one near the A47 was IIRC Colly Weston Great Wood and the other, SE of the SSA was Rogue Sale (again IIRC).

The one in the wood was indeed full of 1000lb HE and, I was told, were complete with the Exploder Pockets and would have made a fine source of explosive for anyone so inclined. It was also unguarded although it may have been alarmed.

[Gainesy]

One was the SSA whose name escapes me,

Special Storage Area = Buckets of Sunshine Sheds.

[chevvron]

Collyweston Great Wood?!! Bloddy hell me and my cadets did a NITEX there in 1987; when was it cleared? There was a Hastings there at the time I remember.