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Wittering

Wittering Airport

Royal Air Force Wittering or more simply RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station within the unitary authority area of , and the unitary authority area of .
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  • Email: wit-airops-stnops@mod.gov.uk
  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: Royal Air Force support station and military airbase in Cambridgeshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “EGXT”, “RAF Wittering”, “Royal Air Force Station Wittering”, and “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Address: Peterborough, PE8 6HB

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve and Church of All Saints.

Nature reserve
Photo: Simon Huguet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bedford Purlieus is a 211-hectare ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. It is a national nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest owned and managed by the Forestry Commission.

Church
Photo: Michael Trolove, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pub
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wittering and Thornhaugh.

Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of , England. The village is about 3 miles south of the market town of in neighbouring and about 9 miles west of Peterborough's urban sprawl.

Village
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a civil parish and village in the city of Peterborough unitary authority, in the United Kingdom. For electoral purposes the parish forms part of the and ward and is in the North West Cambridgeshire constituency.

Village
Photo: Simon Huguet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Duddington-with-Fineshade, in the district, in the ceremonial county of , England.

Wittering Airport

Latitude
52.60793° or 52° 36′ 29″ north
Longitude
-0.47759° or 0° 28′ 39″ west
Elevation
272 feet (83 metres)
Operator
Royal Air Force
ICAO airport code
EGXT
Open location code
9C4XJG5C+5X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 135203285
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­airfield
Geo­Names ID
6296672
Wiki­data ID
Q1754901
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Tajik—“Wittering Airport” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “RAF Wittering”
  • Cebuano: “EGXT”
  • Cebuano: “RAF Wittering”
  • Cebuano: “Royal Air Force Station Wittering”
  • Cebuano: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Cebuano: “Wittering”
  • Chinese: “EGXT”
  • Chinese: “RAF Wittering”
  • Chinese: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Chinese: “威特靈皇家空軍基地”
  • Dutch: “EGXT”
  • Dutch: “RAF Wittering”
  • Dutch: “Royal Air Force Station Wittering”
  • Dutch: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • French: “EGXT”
  • French: “RAF Wittering”
  • French: “Royal Air Force Station Wittering”
  • French: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • German: “EGXT”
  • German: “RAF Wittering”
  • German: “Royal Air Force Station Wittering”
  • German: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Hungarian: “EGXT”
  • Hungarian: “RAF Wittering”
  • Hungarian: “Royal Air Force Station Wittering”
  • Hungarian: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Indonesian: “EGXT”
  • Indonesian: “RAF Wittering”
  • Indonesian: “Royal Air Force Station Wittering”
  • Indonesian: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Japanese: “EGXT”
  • Japanese: “RAF Wittering”
  • Japanese: “RAFウィッタリング”
  • Japanese: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Japanese: “ウイッターリング空軍基地”
  • Japanese: “ウィッタリング空軍基地”
  • Malay: “EGXT”
  • Malay: “Pangkalan Udara Wittering”
  • Malay: “Pengkalan Udara Wittering”
  • Malay: “RAF Wittering”
  • Malay: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Persian: “EGXT”
  • Persian: “RAF Wittering”
  • Persian: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی ویترینگ”
  • Spanish: “EGXT”
  • Spanish: “RAF Wittering”
  • Spanish: “Royal Air Force Station Wittering”
  • Spanish: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Spanish: “Wittering Airfield”
  • Swedish: “EGXT”
  • Swedish: “RAF Wittering”
  • Swedish: “Royal Air Force Station Wittering”
  • Swedish: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Tajik: “EGXT”
  • Tajik: “RAF Wittering”
  • Tajik: “Royal Air Force Wittering”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво салтанате витринг”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯи ҳавоии Салтанати Витринг”

Localities in the Area

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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 “Wittering Airport”. Photo: David Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.