RAF Harwell

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RAF Harwell
Harwell, Oxfordshire in England
A Short Stirling of No. 295 Squadron RAF, taking off from RAF Harwell towing an Airspeed Horsa glider, 17 September 1944. This was one of 25 Stirling/Horsa combinations which carried the Headquarters of I Airborne Corps to landing zones near Groesbeek, Nijmegen as part of Operation Market Garden
RAF Harwell Shown within Oxfordshire Show map of Oxfordshire RAF Harwell RAF Harwell (the United Kingdom) Show map of the United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°34′30″N 1°18′43″W / 51.575°N 1.312°W / 51.575; -1.312
Type	Royal Air Force station
Code	HW[1]
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Bomber Command 1937-44 & 1945 * No. 2 Group RAF * No. 6 (T) Group RAF * No. 91 (OTU) Group RAF RAF Fighter Command 1944-45 * No. 12 Group RAF * No. 38 Group RAF
Site history
Built	1914 (1914) & 1936/37
Built by	John Laing & Son Ltd
In use	1914-?? February 1937 - 1945 (1945)
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation	117 metres (384 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 00/00  Concrete 00/00  Concrete 00/00  Concrete

Royal Air Force Harwell or more simply RAF Harwell is a former Royal Air Force station, near the village of Harwell, located 4.8 miles (7.7 km) south east of Wantage, Oxfordshire and 17 miles (27 km) north west of Reading, Berkshire, England.

The site is now the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus which includes the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.