MOD Chicksands
Ministry of Defence Chicksands, or more simply MOD Chicksands, is a tri-service British Armed Forces facility in Bedfordshire, approximately 35 miles north of London.- Type: Military installation
- Description: location of the headquarters of both the Defence College of Intelligence and the British Army Intelligence Corps. Renamed JITG in January 2015
- Also known as: “Defence Intelligence and Security Centre” and “Ministry of Defence (MoD) Intelligence Corps & Defence Intelligence Training Group (DITG)”
- Address: Chicksands Avenue, Stevenage, SG17 5PR
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chicksands Priory and Military Intelligence Museum.
Chicksands Priory
Building
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Chicksands Priory is a former monastic house at Chicksands in Bedfordshire.
Military Intelligence Museum
Museum
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Military Intelligence Museum is situated 1,300 feet north of MOD Chicksands.
Church of All Saints, Campton
Church
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The Church of All Saints is the Anglican parish church in the village of Campton, Shefford, Bedfordshire, England. Its official title is Campton and Chicksands Parish and encompasses the villages of Campton and Chicksands and the nearby military base, despite the base having its own church dedicated to Saint Gilbert of Sempringham. Church of All Saints, Campton is situated 1 mile southeast of MOD Chicksands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chicksands and Campton.
Chicksands
Locality
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Chicksands is a village in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It gives its name to MOD Chicksands, a military base which was developed from the 1930s on the Chicksands Priory estate.
Campton
Village
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Campton is a village in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is about 9 miles south of Bedford, and is about 9 miles north-west from Letchworth and sits on a tributary of the River Ivel.
Beadlow
Hamlet
Beadlow is a hamlet in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands.
MOD Chicksands
Latitude
52.04087° or 52° 2′ 27″ northLongitude
-0.36513° or 0° 21′ 55″ westOpen location code
9C4X2JRM+8WOpenStreetMap ID
way 32353914OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryWikidata ID
Q5251208
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