RAF Boddington

RAF Boddington
Near Boddington, Gloucestershire in England
RAF Boddington Shown within Gloucestershire
Coordinates	51°55′18″N 002°09′55″W / 51.92167°N 2.16528°W / 51.92167; -2.16528Coordinates: 51°55′18″N 002°09′55″W / 51.92167°N 2.16528°W / 51.92167; -2.16528
Type	Royal Air Force station
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Royal Air Force
Site history
Built	1940 (1940)
In use	1940-2007 (2007)

Royal Air Force Boddington or more simply RAF Boddington is a former non-flying Royal Air Force station located in Boddington, Gloucestershire, England, and was the former home of No. 9 Signals Unit.

Boddington was the first computerised communication centre in the 1950s when it was run by the British Army. The tradition of computerised relay communications has continued to the present day. The station closed on 14 December 2007.^[1]

History

The station was established in 1940 as an army telephone exchange operated by the Auxiliary Territorial Service under the guard of the Gloucestershire Regiment. It was later controlled by the Royal Signal Corps before passing to the Royal Air Force.^[1]

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