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Greenham Common Cruise missile shelter complex is a Cold War military installation dating from the 1980s, constructed to house American BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles deployed to the United Kingdom as part of NATO's response to Soviet intermediate-range nuclear forces. The complex comprises hardened concrete shelters and associated operational buildings designed to withstand nuclear attack, representing a significant example of late twentieth-century military architecture and strategic nuclear deterrence infrastructure. The site reflects the heightened tensions of the early 1980s and remains an important record of the nuclear standoff between NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the final decade of the Cold War.
Cruise missile shelter complex, Greenham Common Airbase is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021040. View the official record →
Greenham Common Cruise missile shelter complex is a Cold War military installation dating from the 1980s, constructed to house American BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles deployed to the United Kingdom as part of NATO's response to Soviet intermediate-range nuclear forces. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021040.
Cruise missile shelter complex, Greenham Common Airbase is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1021040.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A bell barrow and a saucer barrow 315m ESE of the unfinished hillfort on Ladle Hill (7.9 km), An unfinished hillfort, a saucer barrow, a disc barrow and sections of two linear earthworks on Ladle Hill (8 km), The western of two rectangular enclosures on Great Litchfield Down, SSW of Ladle Hill (8.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cruise missile shelter complex, Greenham Common Airbase's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Cruise missile shelter complex, Greenham Common Airbase stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.