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Cruise missile shelter complex, Greenham Common Airbase is a late Cold War military installation constructed during the 1980s to house American BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles. The complex comprises a series of hardened underground shelters and associated support structures built at the Royal Air Force station in Berkshire as part of NATO's nuclear deterrent deployment in Western Europe. The site represents a significant example of Cold War defence architecture and strategic military planning during the final decade of the nuclear standoff between NATO and the Soviet Union. Its construction and operation were accompanied by substantial public protest, most notably the Women's Peace Camp established at the airbase gates between 1981 and 1990.
Cruise missile shelter complex, Greenham Common Airbase is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021040. View the official record →
Cruise missile shelter complex, Greenham Common Airbase is a late Cold War military installation constructed during the 1980s to house American BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles. 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).
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