On 17/03/2012 14:56, Colin Youngs wrote:
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I had wondered why High Wycombe often seems to be relatively cold. That
explains it.


.... In my view, it is so meteorologically / climatologically different
from High Wycombe that it needs to be divorced from that town. At least
Hurn is roughly within the same climatological 'basin' (though just
outside Bournemouth council area - it's actually in Christchurch council
area).

The station 03660 is situated on a military facility - it's still listed
as HQSTC on OgiMet, though it's now part of HQ Air Command, RAF (and
they refer to it as being at Naphill**). There's nothing particularly
'secret' about all this as there are plenty of references in published
literature to the place; I remember distinctly in the 1980s when I was a
member of the National Trust being asked to comment on/ vote on, the
NATO wish to build the nuclear bunker on part of NT land.

The location is here ....

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X...8600&A=Y&Z=126

It's a bit like using Bishopton to describe the conditions in Glasgow!

[** The HQ unit stands on the 'greater' RAF High Wycombe site, which
when built in the early stages of the War, had as its 'parent' village
Naphill - the largest unit with a few shops, pubs etc., at the time.
Walter's Ash was simply a small hamlet of a few cottages strung out
along the road leading to Lacey Green and Loosley Row; nowadays, with
the expansion of the domestic RAF site and associated services, Walter's
Ash is the larger community, but the RAF retain the association with
Naphill.]

Martin.


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