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fuel manufacture, a component test area, the engine test area and the static firing stands. The engine test area at Prior Lancy Rigg consisted of four concrete stands into which the engines could be mounted for test firing. Two rocket-firing stands themselves stood at Greymare Hills and were large
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The outlying moorland landscape of the site is of increasing importance for its visual quality and for nature conservation. The area includes a pristine peat
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The site continues to be used in training the Royal Air Force and NATO allied aircrew in electronic warfare. It also hosts other exercising forces such as
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nuclear weapons programme was made public in 2004 when tree felling uncovered remains of abandoned excavations for an experimental
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The Spadeadam area was remote and largely uninhabited and known as Spadeadam Waste. The name is possibly a corruption of
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The Rocket Establishment, as it was called, was divided into five areas: an administration and assembly block, a
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The RAF took the site over in 1976 and it became Europe's first electronic warfare tactics range in 1977.
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were felled in 2008 to 2009 to allow the peat bogs to return. Despite concerns about trees being
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The Place-names of Cumberland, Part 1: Eskdale, Cumberland and Leath Wards
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Armstrong, A. M.; Mawer, A.; Stenton, F. M.; Dickins, Bruce (1950).
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The site was first built in 1955 to be the test centre for the
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of several locations throughout its history; these include:
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Wing Commander Andrew Tidmarsh BSc (Hons) MA MRes MSc RAF
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Spadeadam

Gilsland
Northumberland


RAF Spadeadam is located in Cumbria
Cumbria
RAF Spadeadam is located in the former City of Carlisle district
City of Carlisle
Cumbria
55°01′30″N 002°36′08″W / 55.02500°N 2.60222°W / 55.02500; -2.60222
Royal Air Force station
Ministry of Defence
Royal Air Force
IATA
ICAO
Royal Air Force
station
Cumbria
Northumberland
electronic warfare
United Kingdom
NATO
Hadrian's Wall
Cumbric
/spɪdɪdəm/
Hobie Noble

Blue Streak missile

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