RAF Wroughton

[2] RAF Hospital Wroughton was part of the station and stood near the eastern boundary of the site, about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) west of Chiseldon.Wroughton continued as a General Hospital treating military patients, and from 1958 took NHS cases as well to relieve backlogs in the Swindon area.[6] When the hostages from Beirut were released in August 1991, Wg Cdr Gordon Turnbull, a psychiatrist based at Wroughton, with his team, debriefed John McCarthy, Terry Waite and Jackie Mann and provided the counselling necessary to ease them back into freedom.[7] The hospital closed on 31 March 1996 as part of the Conservative Government's defence cuts at the end of the cold war.This was a joint project of Public Power Solutions (a commercial arm of Swindon Borough Council)[11] and the Science Museum Group.