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Warpsgrove
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… north of the remaining houses served the Second World War airfield at Chalgrove, 9 and in the 1960s70s a small … Warpsgrove's northern part) was lost when Chalgrove airfield was built in 1943. 15 The parish had no carriers, … in 1931, 16 and two were removed for the Second World War airfield at Chalgrove. 17 Nissen huts and other temporary …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the land then retained 30 a. were taken c. 1940 for the airfield, leaving 17 a. adjoining the old vicarage close in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 400 pupils, a third of them drawn from the families at the airfield. 98In the 1970s the school became well known for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… taken c. 1940 for the runways and buildings of an R.A.F. airfield. 1 The eastern half of the parish remained fen … 1931. Rapid growth accompanied the establishment of the airfield: of 2,630 inhabitants in 1951 1,880 belonged to … 1981. 60Apart from the erection of married quarters at the airfield, for which a new estate of almost 80 houses was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… farm, the rent remained payable to the college out of the airfield until compulsorily redeemed in 1986. 3 Long before … council, which sold all but 22 a. to the R.A.F. for the airfield in 1941. 53 In 1846 Hall farm was bought from the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 77Their chaplain by 1965 also served a small chapel at the airfield, lately converted from a derelict shed, and named by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… more recent times from ironstone-quarrying and a war-time airfield. The outline of the gardens, virtually as they were …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… mechanically for the construction of Little Rissington airfield (SP 21781916). 1 TBGAS, 59 (1937), 334. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a garage in Lasborough in the 1930s in one of the former airfield buildings. 13 Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i. 167. Ibid. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… included 110 a. 21 During the First World War there was an airfield in the centre of Lasborough. 22 The two parts of the …