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Full Metal Jacket

Bassingbourn Barracks

Bassingbourn · United Kingdom  ·  Recruit training camp

Full Metal Jacket filmed at Bassingbourn Barracks, Bassingbourn. A military barracks in Cambridgeshire that stands in for the recruit depot in South Carolina. On screen it's Parris Island.

Bassingbourn Barracks, Bassingbourn

Where to go

52.0942, -0.05

Probable Named in published production coverage; the coordinate is the place itself, checked against a gazetteer.

Good to know

Title
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
On screen
Parris Island
In real life
Bassingbourn Barracks, Bassingbourn
Can you visit?
Private. Not open to visitors
Time to allow
—
Confidence
Probable

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Bassingbourn Barracks today

Photography of the place as it is now — production stills from the publications that covered the shoot, and freely-licensed photographs. Each links to its source.

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Questions

Where exactly did Full Metal Jacket film at Bassingbourn Barracks?
At 52.0942, -0.05 in Bassingbourn. Named in published production coverage; the coordinate is the place itself, checked against a gazetteer.
Can you visit Bassingbourn Barracks?
Private. Not open to visitors.
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