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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… was influenced by the establishment of a wartime military airfield which, with RAF Brize Norton, developed into one of … Oxfordshire's two main military air stations. The extended airfield now occupies much of the former farmland between … ten years later (when the London road was severed by the airfield) was replaced by a new, more westerly road to …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… of agricultural engineers occupied premises at the former airfield near Oldwalls Sheds. In Winson there was a …
A History of the County of Essex
… gravel pit was opened in 1939 on Maldon Road when Birch airfield was built. It was acquired by the Amey Roadstone …
A History of the County of Essex
… Another inn, called the Victory, existed by 1866. 91 Birch airfield south-west of Sandford Hall Green, built by the U.S. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… effectively cut in two by the extension of Brize Norton airfield across its middle. 3 Parish Boundaries and Landscape … and again in 1985, when the main runway of Brize Norton airfield became the boundary between Black Bourton and … was suppressed c. 1935 for the building of Brize Norton airfield, and the Burford road in 1951 when the main runway …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the 1980s over 150 a. of the 230-a. Heath farm. 57 A airfield, 58 which was a satellite of that at Waterbeach, was … Little Wilbraham. At first used for bomber training, the airfield accommodated fighter reconnoissance squadrons … O.S. Map 1/10,000, TL 55 NE. (1977, 1985 edns.). For the airfield, M.J.F. Bowyer, Action Stations (1979), 69-70; J.F. …
A History of the County of Essex
… people on Boxted aerodrome, Langham, and in 1948 the airfield huts were converted to temporary homes. The … smallholding colony during the First World War. 10 Boxted Airfield, which opened as an American 8th Air Force base in … Hist. Group. Carter, Short Hist. Boxted, pp. 44-5; 'Boxted Airfield' (TS. in Colch. Mus.). Inf. from Mr. and Mrs. M. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were presumably cleared when the area was taken into the airfield. 50 In 1776 Astrop farm included two coppices …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a siding. Two other, long sidings were added in 1936 for airfield-related traffic. The station was initially named … (Beds.). Land was acquired in 19367. 166 When the airfield was opened on 13 August 1937 it consisted of a … P. W. Davis, Brize Norton: The Story of an Oxfordshire Airfield (2004), published after this volume was completed. …