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Boscombe Down Airport

MOD Boscombe Down is the home of a military aircraft testing site, on the south-eastern outskirts of the town of , , England. The site is managed by QinetiQ, the private defence company created as part of the breakup of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in 2001 by the Ministry of Defence.
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  • Email: deswpnstest-bsdops@mod.gov.uk
  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: Military test & evaluation airfield in Wiltshire, England
  • Also known as: “BD”, “Boscombe Down”, “Boscombe Down Airfield”, “EGDM”, “MoD Boscombe Down”, “MOD Boscombe Down”, and “RAF Boscombe Down”
  • Address: Boscombe Down, Salisbury, SP4 0JF

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bluestonehenge and Vespasian’s Camp.

Archaeological site
or Bluehenge is a prehistoric henge and stone circle monument that was discovered by the Stonehenge Riverside Project about 1 mile south-east of in , .

Cliff
Photo: Psychostevouk, Public domain.
Vespasian's Camp is an Iron Age hillfort just west of the town of , , England. The hillfort is less than 3 kilometres from the Neolithic and Bronze Age site of , and was built on a hill next to the ; it has the River Avon on its southern side and the A303 road on its northern edge.

Church
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John the Baptist's Church in the village of , south-east of in Wiltshire, England, is a redundant Anglican which was rebuilt in 1851.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boscombe and Allington.

Hamlet
Photo: Miss Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , , England. It lies about 3 miles southeast of on the banks of the River Bourne, on the A338 road which follows the Bourne on its way from to and beyond.

Hamlet
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in , England, about 3 miles southeast of and 7 miles northeast of . The parish includes the village of ; both villages are on the River Bourne and the A338 road.

Photo: TobyEditor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in , . As the closest town to , it makes an excellent starting point for a visit to the ancient monument by car or on foot.

Boscombe Down Airport

Latitude
51.15559° or 51° 9′ 20″ north
Longitude
-1.74898° or 1° 44′ 56″ west
Elevation
407 feet (124 metres)
Operator
QinetiQ
ICAO airport code
EGDM
Open location code
9C3W5742+6C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 121206744
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­airfield
Geo­Names ID
6296581
Wiki­data ID
Q3566434
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Satellite Map

Discover Boscombe Down Airport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Tajik—“Boscombe Down Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Boscombe Down”
  • Chinese: “博斯庫姆唐”
  • Chinese: “英國皇家空軍巴斯坎道基地”
  • French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
  • French: “MoD Boscombe Down”
  • German: “MoD Boscombe Down”
  • Indonesian: “EGDM”
  • Japanese: “ボスコム・ダウン”
  • Japanese: “ボスコム・ダウン基地”
  • Japanese: “ボスコムダウン”
  • Japanese: “ボスコムダウン空軍基地”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Boscombe Down”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Boscombe Down”
  • Norwegian: “MOD Boscombe Down”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه وزارت دفاع بریتانیا در باسکامب داون”
  • Swedish: “Boscombe Down”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи визорат дифоъ биретонеё дар боскомб довн”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as West Boscombe and Queensbury Bridge.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Boscombe Airfield Solar Farm and Amesbury Disc Golf Course.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Boscombe Down Airport”. Photo: Rodw, CC BY-SA 4.0.