"Molesworth map with muddy bootprint" [Temp.2024.3.3]

Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.3.3

Object Name
map

Title
Molesworth

Place
RAF Molesworth

Events
Molesworth Peace Camp

Date
1980?

Description
Black and white printed, handdrawn and photocopied map of Molesworth, with detailed notes of the police areas, dog patrols, floodlights, and wire fences. There are some mud stains on the paper including what appears to be a boot print in the bottom left corner.


RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire was one of three sites chosen to deploy 64 US Cruise missiles during the Cold War. In 1980, various peace campaigners started building a protest camp on the land, called 'Peace Corner'. In 1985, over 100 people were living there until the camp was evicted by police in April that year. Despite this, the campaign continued with various protestors camping in or around the site. Nuclear missiles were removed from the RAF Molesworth base in 1987 when The United States and The Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and the camp officially disbanded in 1990, just before the end of the Cold War.

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