Witchford
Coordinates: 52°23′13″N 0°12′22″E / 52.387°N 0.206°E
Witchford /ˈwɪtʃfɔːrd/ is a village near Ely in Cambridgeshire, England with a 2011 population of 2,385.
The parish church, dedicated to St Andrew, is a Grade II* listed building.
Witchford houses the secondary school Witchford Village College that serves all of the surrounding villages, including Haddenham, Little Thetford, Mepal, Stretham, Sutton, Wilburton and Witcham.
The village hosts the Grunty Fen Half Marathon road race, which has been staged annually in the village since 1991. The race begins and ends at Witchford Village College and involves two laps into the nearby Grunty Fen.
Two hundreds of the Isle of Ely, North Witchford and South Witchford, took their name from the place and had their meeting-place at Witchford.
The village was once the home to RAF Witchford, an RAF Bomber Command station that was built in 1942 and closed and broken up in 1946. It was initially home to the Vickers Wellington bombers of No. 196 Squadron RAF, but after they relocated to RAF Leicester East their place was taken by No. 115 Squadron RAF flying Avro Lancasters. It was proposed to become a missile base thereafter (rumours said it was to become a Blue Streak base), which is why some of the older residents refer to the site (now an industrial park) as "The Rocket Base".
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