Westcott Venture Park

 Second World War 1939-1945, closed / former military, business park

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Westcott Venture Park (WVP) is the largest business park, for light industry, in Buckinghamshire.
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It occupies the site of the former RAF Westcott :
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RAF Westcott was a World War II Royal Air Force station in Buckinghamshire. It was used by 11 OTU (Operational Training Unit) during the war, along with its satellite station RAF Oakley. RAF Westcott opened in September 1942 with crews using Wellington bombers for training.

Many of these crews saw active service in Lancaster bombers in the fierce aerial campaign waged by Bomber Command over occupied Europe.

The RAF moved out in August 1945 shortly after welcoming nearly 53,000 liberated POW’s who were flown into Westcott in Operation Exodus.

In the 1960s and 1970s, it was the home of the Rocket Propulsion Establishment. One notable feature of this era was that RAF Westcott did not appear on Ordnance Survey maps of the area.