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Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… late 1980s. 15 During the Second World War a small grass airfield at Kelmscott (opened in 1942) served as a relief … in the new conservation area; 17 nothing remains of the airfield, however. In 19589 controversy erupted over the … Antiq. 1999), 89. Hollands, Kelmscott, 103. For Kelmscott airfield and riverside pillboxes, above, Kelmscott intro. …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… to Faringdon was severed by the extension of Brize Norton airfield in 1951, and is now relatively minor, still crossing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… employment became increasingly dependent on the military airfield. In the 1970s the RAF employed 400 civilians …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the opening in 1937 of the neighbouring Royal Air Force airfield at Brize Norton, its expansion under the United … to Black Bourton was suppressed in 1951, when Brize Norton airfield was extended across Black Bourton parish; thereafter the airfield formed Carterton's southern perimeter. 8 31. …
Chalgrove
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… sold its estate in 1942. The following year a military airfield was built over former farmland, its huts and … Co. (manufacturing aircraft ejector-seats) took over the airfield itself. A late 20th-century industrial estate … the boundary with Brightwell Baldwin to 70 m. at Chalgrove airfield and 58 m. at Rofford (by Haseley brook). Only at the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… House, and Bull Inn, formerly Bullens, farm. 52 In 1942 an airfield was made on 355 a. at Sigwells farm in the west of …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Way' probably ran N.E. across the area now occupied by the airfield and Chedworth Woods (SP 0413), but no trace of it …