Upwood
Royal Air Force Upwood or more simply RAF Upwood is a former Royal Air Force station adjacent to the village of Upwood, Cambridgeshire, England, in the United Kingdom.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: former Royal Air Force station
- Also known as: “RAF Upwood” and “UD”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St John the Baptist and Wistow Wood.
Wistow Wood
Forest
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Warboys and Wistow Woods is a 44.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Warboys and west of Wistow in Cambridgeshire. Wistow Wood is an 8.5-hectare nature reserve owned and managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
Ramsey Heights nature reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: Verbcatcher, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ramsey Heights Nature Reserve is a small nature reserve near the village of Ramsey Heights in Cambridgeshire, England. The reserve is 5 ha in extent and features ponds formed from abandoned clay pits that are rich in aquatic plant and insect life.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upwood and Ramsey.
Upwood
Village
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Upwood is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Upwood and the Raveleys, in the non-metropolitan district and historic county of Huntingdonshire, England, although in the administrative county of Cambridgeshire.
Ramsey
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ramsey is a small market town in Cambridgeshire. Ramsey is an historic fenland town with an abbey founded in 969. It's a quiet place where you can experience rural England but has enough life and facilities to enable you to stay there.
Ramsey Heights
Village
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ramsey Heights is a village in Ramsey civil parish, part of the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The Ramsey Heights nature reserve is located on the edge of the village and the larger Woodwalton Fen National Nature Reserve is 2 miles to the southwest of the village.
Upwood
Latitude
52.43532° or 52° 26′ 7″ northLongitude
-0.12733° or 0° 7′ 38″ westElevation
75 feet (23 metres)Open location code
9C4XCVPF+43OpenStreetMap ID
way 164058691OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=brownfieldOpenStreetMap feature
military=airfield
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Upwood” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “厄普伍德皇家空軍基地”
- Chinese: “阿普伍德皇家空軍基地”
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Upwood”
- German: “RAF Upwood”
- Japanese: “アップウッド空軍基地”
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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 “Upwood”. Photo: sidibousaid, CC BY 2.0.