--- title: >- RAF Upwood date: 2020-03-14 00:00:00 modified: 2026-05-23 09:14:33 lang: en authors: Piotr Pelica url: https://pelica.net/en/raf-upwood tags: - photography status: published --- # RAF Upwood RAF Upwood is a former Royal Air Force station adjacent to the village of Upwood in Cambridgeshire. It was closed in 2012 and the gates just stayed open. What happened after? 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