RAF Brampton - Cambridgeshire, UK - Military Installations on Waymarking.com

RAF Brampton is based in an old estate parkland where the remains of an old Pre-Victorian house stands once owned by Lady Olivia Bernard Sparrow. In 1907 the house was used to treat people suffering from stammers and in World War I it was a prisoner of war camp.

Lord Mandeville inherited the property but at the onset of World War II it became the Sun Babies Nursery which cared for about 100 babies evacuated from London. Then in 1942 the United Stated Army Air Corps took over the site activating the First Bomb Wing Headquarters.

In 1946 the last American troops left Brampton and in 1955 RAF Brampton became a permanent establishment. More detailed information can be found on the website below.

Wikipedia lists the following article:
'RAF Brampton is a Royal Air Force station near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. Formerly the home of RAF Support Command, it now houses several elements of Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), which itself was a result of a merger between the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) and the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), and provides a base for the Defence Security Standards Organisation and Defence Estates.

Duties
The station is also home to JARIC - The National Imagery Exploitation Centre, which produces intelligence from all forms of imagery, and provides trained and experienced Service personnel to provide intelligence in support of operations.

History
Originally, RAF Brampton, RAF Wyton and RAF Henlow were separate stations. However, in the mid-1990s, with the closure of RAF Logistics Command then at Brampton, and the cessation of operational flying from Wyton, the 2 Stations amalgamated to become Brampton Wyton. Henlow joined the group in 2001, and brought with it RAF Stanbridge, to produce the largest station in terms both of both geography and number of personnel in the RAF. The Station stretches from Brampton and Wyton, around 7 miles apart, in the north, southwards around 30 miles to Henlow, and then westwards some 20 miles (towards Leighton Buzzard) to Stanbridge. It is now part of the combined station RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow.

Airfield
Brampton has no airfield, but both Wyton and Henlow do. Wyton is used by University Air Squadrons flying the Grob Tutor and Henlow is leased out as a general aviation airfield. Wyton is also the main base for the DLO.'

Era: WW I General Comments: RAF Brampton can be seen when driving into Brampton past the golf course and garden centre. Related web site: [Web Link]

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