Sites in category Defence
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| Abbotts Cliff Sound Mirror |
Part of the UK Sonic Landscape, these listening stations were used as an acoustic early warning system during the Second World War. Unlike so much of the UK's second... |
| AWE Aldermaston |
AWE Aldermaston Government run Atomic Weapons Establishment employing 4,500 staff and over 2,000 contractors, based near Reading. The facility deals with many... |
| Bletchley Park Trust |
Historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer. Currently run as a heritage centre. |
| Corsham Computer Centre |
The Corsham Computer Centre (CCC) along with RAF Rudloe Manor and the RAF Corsham, is centred around a range of sites, with ground facilities and installations giving... |
| Denge Sound Mirror |
The acoustic mirrors, known colloquially as 'listening ears', at Denge are located between Greatstone-on-Sea and Lydd airfield, on the banks of a now disused gravel... |
| Dstl - Porton Down |
‎DSTL Porton Down is one of the most sensitive and secret experimental sites in the UK. The site is based around a technology park conducting scientific and military... |
| Fleet Ex-MOD Control Site |
Site used in the Dorset Defence Trials, run by the Microbiological Research Establishment (MRE) Porton Down and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Reports of all... |
| GCHQ |
GCHQ is one of the three UK Intelligence Agencies and a part of the UK's National Intelligence Machinery. GCHQ works in partnership with the Security Service (also... |
| Greenham Common |
Greenham Common airfield was one of several wartime airfields in the Salisbury Plain area and was originally intended for use as an RAF Bomber Command Operational... |
| Hanslope Park |
Home to Her Majesty's Government Communications Centre (HMGCC), Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), TSD (Technical Security Department), and providing lots of... |
| International School for Security and Explosives Education (ISSEE) |
Based at the UK Centre for Homeland Security - Former RAF Chilmark, Chilmark, ISSEE offers a wide range of search, security and counter terrorist training. ISSEE's... |
| L3 Communications TRL Technology |
L3 Communications TRL Technology L-3 TRL Technology develops technology in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Force Protection and... |
| Land Reference Centre - Blandford Camp | |
| Lulworth Military Range |
Site requisitioned during World War 2, Lulworth Military Range is 7500 acre site stretching from Wareham to Lulworth Cove. Parts of coast and roads through the range... |
| Malvern Hills Science Park |
Malvern Hills Science Park |
| Qinetiq - Foulness Island |
QinetiQ - Key defence research establishment. |
| QinetiQ - Larkhill |
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency [DERA] as of July 1 2001, officially became known as QinetiQ [pronounced kinetic]. Many of the 80-plus laboratories, employing... |
| Qinetiq - Portland Bill |
QinietiQ - Portland Bill. Compass Test Centre - operating and testing. Sea and Land Magnetic Facilities. Site owned and operated by QinetiQ. Formerly the Admiralty... |
| QinetiQ Defford SIGINT enclave |
This was a formerly very sensitive site removed from maps right up to 2005. Until this date it was run by QinetiQ, but this site now only contains a radio satellite... |
| RAF Fairford |
RAF Fairford is the European forward operating location for USAF and NATO contingencies and exercises. While the base has no permanently assigned aircraft it's... |
| ROC Worth Matravers |
An example of one of 1563 Royal Observer Corps (ROC) underground monitoring posts built throughout Great Britain & Northern Ireland during the cold war. Although... |
| ROF Burghfield |
ROF Burghfield Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Burghfield, assembly location for British nuclear weapons. |
| Royal Signals Museum Blandford Camp | |
| Samphire Hoe |
This stretch of the coast in Kent is the by-product of the most visible public engineering transport infrastructure project to be carried out in recent years. In this... |
| Swanage Radar Museum |
More Information to follow. |
| Worth Matravers Radar Site |
In the early 1990s the Purbeck Radar Museum Trust was formed to raise public awareness of the radar work that went on at Worth Matravers during World War 2. Worth was... |