This map shows the airfield at Westcott.
http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=51.84535,-0.97218|15|8&loc=GB:51.84535:-0.97218:15
And a description of the site from:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan-turnbull/secret2.htm
Presumably the fuels at Roxel’s Summerfield plant were also transported for use by the Rocket Propulsion Establishment (RPE), formerly run by BAe Systems, at Westcott in Buckinghamshire.
The majority of the site is now given over to the Westcott Venture Park, hosting dozens of industrial companies. However, BAe Systems still have a key office there.
It specialises in advising worldwide clients on the environmental issues involved in decommissioning and converting old MoD related sites, once associated with the storage and testing of ordnance and dangerous chemicals, to “normal” use. How apt!
As soon as the hi-res aerial photography of RPE Westcott became available on Google Earth, many enthusiastic readers of “Secret Bases” contacted me, excited at spotting an apparent SIGINT enclave just to the north.
They were convinced that the remote depot – in the middle of farmers’ fields, ringed by fortress-like security and with an obvious communications tower – was in covert use by SIS or GCHQ. My correspondents were surprised that I’d overlooked it!
However, reality is rather more mundane! A bit of research revealed that it is actually Transco’s Aylesbury Gas Compressor Station, utilising huge Rolls-Royce turbines and connected into a major underground pipeline
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