RAF Newmarket

The RAF station was actually a grass-strip on Newmarket's Rowley Mile Racecourse.

[1] The grass strip is still used by light aircraft today.

In July and August 1942, ground running and taxiing tests were carried out at RAF Newmarket with a prototype of the new Gloster Meteor jet fighter.

[4] In the 1950s-60s a new camp appeared under the name RAF Newmarket on the Dullingham Road.

This was a Communications Unit under RAF Signals Command and contained Eastern Communications Centre (Commcen Eastern) and North Eastern Communications Centre (Commcen North East) and staffed mainly by National Service and Regular Personnel.

DG202/G , the prototype Gloster Meteor tested at RAF Newmarket, on display at the Royal Air Force Museum London in 2011.