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Brown's Quarry Old Air Shaft Seven Shaft Quarry Air Shaft 1 Rudloe Shaft Tunnel Quarry Air Outlet Shaft 2 Seven Shaft Quarry Ventilation Shaft Seven Shaft Quarry Old Slope Shaft Tunnel Quarry Air Outlet Shaft 3 Rudloe Air Shaft 1 Rudloe Trial/Air Shaft Tunnel Quarry Air Inlet Shaft 1 Seven Shaft Quarry Old Shaft Spring Quarry Exhaust Air Shaft E2 Seven Shaft Quarry Slope Shaft 1 Rudloe Air Shaft (Central) Box Quarry - Cliftworks Passage Shaft 2 Spring Quarry Air Induction Shaft B1 Spring Quarry Shaft - Personnel Lift PL1
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RAF Rudloe Manor, Corsham.
| NGR: | ST 84836 69608 |
| WGS84: | 51.42527, -2.21949 |
| Length: | 0 m |
| Depth: | 0 m |
| Altitude: | 134 m |
| Tags: | Mine, Shaft |
| Registry: | wbc |
A nearby "Air Shaft" (Brown's Quarry Old Air Shaft) is shown on the First Edition OS maps for Wiltshire. Browns Quarry developed originally as a small independent quarry to the north-west of Tunnel Quarry. It was taken over by the MOWB in 1940 and then came into operation as No.10 RAF Fighter Group. It was responsible for air defence of the western region. By 1950 Brown's Quarry was selected to be the new Southern Sector Operations Centre, and the quarry continued in operation into the Cold War forming the HQ of the Controllerate of Defence Communications Network. Today, little remains of the Second World War use of the quarry as the Operations Room was gutted, and the remaining areas are empty shells. Access was by this electric lift to the surface or through a long narrow passage into the adjacent Spring Quarry.
Alternative Names: None recorded.
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