RAF Upavon
Royal Air Force Upavon, or more simply RAF Upavon, is a former Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. It was a grass airfield, military flight training school, and administrative headquarters of the Royal Air Force.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Airport
- Description: former Royal Air Force station near Upavon, Pewsey, Wiltshire
- Also known as: “Royal Air Force Station Upavon” and “UPN”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Casterley Camp and Church of St Matthew.
Casterley Camp
Archaeological site
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Casterley Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England, about 1+1⁄2 miles south-west of the village of Upavon. The site comprises a large Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure, possibly non-defensive in function, and incomplete. Casterley Camp is situated 2½ miles west of RAF Upavon.
Church of St Matthew
Church
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Church of St Matthew is situated 2 miles northwest of RAF Upavon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upavon and Coombe.
Upavon
Village
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Upavon is a rural village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England. As its name suggests, it is on the upper portion of the River Avon which runs from north to south through the village.
Coombe
Hamlet
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Coombe is a hamlet of the civil parish of Enford, Wiltshire, England, about 13 miles north of the cathedral city of Salisbury. It lies on the River Avon between the larger villages of Enford and Netheravon, with nearly half of its houses on the road connecting the two and the remainder in Coombe Lane. Coombe is situated 2½ miles south of RAF Upavon.
Charlton St Peter
Village
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Charlton St Peter or just Charlton is a small village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey in the English county of Wiltshire. The village lies about 4 miles south-west of Pewsey. Charlton St Peter is situated 2½ miles northwest of RAF Upavon.
RAF Upavon
- Categories: Royal Air Force station, aerodrome, Royal Flying Corps airfields, and transportation
- Location: Enford, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“RAF Upavon” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “RAF Upavon”
- Cebuano: “Royal Air Force Station Upavon”
- Cebuano: “UPN”
- Dutch: “RAF Upavon”
- Dutch: “Royal Air Force Station Upavon”
- Dutch: “UPN”
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Upavon”
- French: “Royal Air Force Station Upavon”
- French: “UPN”
- Indonesian: “RAF Upavon”
- Indonesian: “Royal Air Force Station Upavon”
- Indonesian: “UPN”
- Japanese: “RAF Upavon”
- Japanese: “UPN”
- Japanese: “トレンチャード宿営地”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Upavon Army”
- Malay: “RAF Upavon”
- Malay: “UPN”
- Persian: “RAF Upavon”
- Persian: “UPN”
- Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی اوپاون”
- Swedish: “RAF Upavon”
- Swedish: “Royal Air Force Station Upavon”
- Swedish: “UPN”
- Tajik: “RAF Upavon”
- Tajik: “UPN”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво салтанате овповн”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Netheravon and Milton Hill.
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