The women's movement had a strong influence, much of it emanating from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.

CND's growing support in the 1980s provoked opposition from several sources, including Peace Through Nato, the British Atlantic Committee ( which received government funding ), Women and Families for Defence ( set up by conservative journalist Lady Olga Maitland to oppose the Greenham Common Peace Camp ), the Conservative Party's Campaign for Defence and Multilateral Disarmament, the Coalition for Peace through Security, the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, and The 61, a private sector intelligence agency.

* Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

* December 12 – Women's peace protest at Greenham Common: 30, 000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14. 5 km ( 9 mi ) perimeter fence.

Many groups also set up semi-permanent " peace camps " outside air bases such as Molesworth and Greenham Common, and at the Nevada Test Site.

Newbury is best known for its racecourse and the adjoining former USAF airbase at Greenham Common.

Greenham Common in the late 80s

A large Royal Air Force station was established during the Second World War at Greenham Common on the edge of the town.

In the 1980s, it became one of only two USAF bases in the UK equipped with ground-launched nuclear-armed cruise missiles, causing it to become the site of protests by up to 40, 000 protesters and the establishment of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.

Adjoining the town's south-eastern border is Greenham Common and the famous racecourse.

Other theatres in the town are the Watermill Theatre, and New Greenham Arts on the former Greenham Common air force base.

The main film and media production company in Newbury is MWS Media, based at Greenham Business Park ( formerly Greenham Common Air Base ).

* New Greenham Arts-an ex-US military building on Greenham Common airbase, now used to house artist studios, and a thriving performing arts centre.

* Disused GAMA and control tower at Greenham Common.

* On 11 November 1983, Aboriginal women led 700 women activists to the Pine Gap gates where they fell silent for 11 minutes to mark Remembrance Day and the arrival of Pershing missiles at Greenham Common in Britain.

* Piano Trio ( Greenham-Seneca-Camiso ) ( 1985 ) Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp The Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice

Bown's extensive photojournalism output includes series on Hop Pickers, Greenham Common evictions, Butlin's holiday resort, the British Seaside, and in 2002, Glastonbury festival.

In 2007 her work on the Greenham Common evictions was selected by Val Williams and Susan Bright as part of ' How We Are: Photographing Britain ', the first major survey of photography to be held at Tate Britain.

Includes work from the Greenham Common evictions.

Adrian's mother becomes a staunch feminist and briefly joins the Greenham Common campaigners.

She acted for innumerable political protesters, at Greenham Common and other peace camps, on anti-apartheid marches and demonstrations and defended women who damaged shops in protest against " top shelf " magazines.

* participation in August 1981 in the first leg of the march from Cardiff City Hall which led to Greenham Common,

The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s.

In late 1943, Greenham Common airfield was turned over to the USAAF Ninth Air Force.

In addition to the airfield, the heathland immediately to the east, Greenham Common, was earmarked as an assembly point for WACO CG-4A Assault Gliders which were received from the US in packing crates.

The RAF used the Greenham Common airfield as an RAF basic training centre until being closed in June 1946, with the facility being put into care and maintenance status.

The airfield came under Strategic Air Command's 7th Air Division, with the 3909th Combat Support Group as its administrative unit on the base, responsible for all non-flying activities as well as maintenance and logistical support of the flying units attached to RAF Greenham Common.

The 20th Tactical Fighter Wing at RAF Upper Heyford established " Operating Location A " at Greenham Common for its F-111 fighters in 1976, using the airfield occasionally for dispersal exercises.

* RAF Greenham Common airfield

The 501st Tactical Missile Wing ( TMW ) was activated at RAF Greenham Common in July 1982 and the 303d Tactical Missile Wing at RAF Molesworth in December 1986.

The new generation was in evidence in the first ' Summer Green Gathering ' in July 1980, the action of Ecology Party CND ( later Green CND ), and the Greenham Common camp.

In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.

Greenham Common was a piece of common land.

Greenham Common was known as USAAF Station AAF-486 for security reasons by the USAAF during the war, and it was referred to by this name instead of by location.

As troop carrier groups began arriving in the UK in late 1943 and deployed in the Greenham Area, Greenham Common was one of the airfields used by the Ninth Air Force for fighter groups arriving from the United States.

Literally as the 368th FG was moving out, the 438th Troop Carrier Group was flying into Greenham Common from RAF Langar.

In response to the perceived threat by the Soviet Union, especially after the 1948 Berlin Blockade and the 1950 invasion of South Korea by the Korean People's Army, on 23 April 1951, RAF Greenham Common was made available to the United States Air Force by the British Ministry of Defence as a Strategic Air Command base, with joint operations with the Royal Air Force units.

Between 1951 and 1953, major construction work was performed on the base, as post-war jet bombers required a much greater runway length for take off versus those of World War II, and the Strategic Air Command spent over £ 2 million building a new-long runway that extended onto Greenham Common and across the A339.

The Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) departed Greenham Common on 30 June 1964, much to the relief of the local residents ; the thundering jet bombers of SAC came no more, and for several years it was used for USAF storage and as a relief base.

In late 1967, Greenham Common was used for NATO Reforger exercises, again as a result of the withdrawal of France from the NATO integrated military alliance.

On 1 November 1968 control of RAF Greenham Common was transferred from SAC to the United States Air Forces in Europe, with the 7551st Combat Support Group having administrative control of the base.

However, the base was little used, primarily being utilised as a United States Military Postal Mail sorting facility, with aircraft flying mail in from the United States, being sorted at Greenham Common, then distributed to American bases in the UK and Europe.

Mail from American forces in Europe was also sent to Greenham Common and sorted there, before being flown to the United States.

The UK's share of this total was 160 missiles, 96 based at Greenham Common with four spares, and 64 at RAF Molesworth.