RAF Bentwaters
Royal Air Force Bentwaters or more simply RAF Bentwaters, now known as Bentwaters Parks, is a former Royal Air Force station about 80 miles northeast of London and 10 miles east-northeast of Ipswich, near Woodbridge, Suffolk in England.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Industry
- Description: former RAF station in Suffolk, England
- Also known as: “Bentwaters Parks”, “BY”, and “RAF Bentwaters / USAF Bentwaters”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bentwaters Cold War Museum and Church of St John the Baptist.
Bentwaters Cold War Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bentwaters Cold War Museum is situated 3,000 feet north of RAF Bentwaters.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: Jon Hopkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St John the Baptist is situated 1 mile east of RAF Bentwaters.
Wickham Market railway station
Railway station
Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wickham Market railway station is on the East Suffolk Line in the east of England, located in Campsea Ashe, Suffolk, approximately 2 miles east of Wickham Market itself. Wickham Market railway station is situated 2½ miles northwest of RAF Bentwaters.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rendlesham and Butley.
Rendlesham
Village
Rendlesham is a village and civil parish near Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom. It was a royal centre of authority for the king of the East Angles. The proximity of the Sutton Hoo ship burial may indicate a connection between Sutton Hoo and the East Anglian royal house, the Wuffingas.
Butley
Village
Photo: John Winfield, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Butley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. Butley lies 7+1⁄2 miles east of the town of Woodbridge on the B1084 road. Administratively, Butley forms part of the East Suffolk district; from 1934 to 1974 it had been part of the former Deben Rural District, and then from 1974 to 2019 it had been part of the former Suffolk Coastal District Council. Butley is situated 1½ miles southeast of RAF Bentwaters.
Tunstall
Village
Tunstall is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. There are two settlements named Tunstall next to each other, 7.5 miles north east of Woodbridge. Tunstall is situated 1½ miles northeast of RAF Bentwaters.
RAF Bentwaters
- Categories: Royal Air Force station and air base
- Location: Wantisden, Suffolk Coastal District, Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.1232° or 52° 7′ 24″ northLongitude
1.43124° or 1° 25′ 53″ eastOpen location code
9F434CFJ+7FOpenStreetMap ID
way 43008531OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q388822
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“RAF Bentwaters” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “RAF Bentwaters”
- Cebuano: “Bentwaters Royal Air Force Base”
- Chinese: “本特沃特斯皇家空軍基地”
- Dutch: “RAF Bentwaters”
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Bentwaters”
- Italian: “RAF Bentwaters”
- Japanese: “ベントウォーターズ空軍基地”
- Swedish: “Bentwaters Royal Air Force Base”
- Swedish: “RAF Bentwaters”
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