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A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… the north of the parish, was truncated when the military airfield was extended c. 1950, and replaced by a new eastwest …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… at the east end. 3 North-west of Purton Stoke, Blakehill airfield was built in 19423 on 580 a. of land belonging to …
A History of the County of Essex
… station Hornchurch originated in 1915, when a military airfield, to defend London from Zeppelins, was opened at …
A History of the County of Essex
… the First World War part of Suttons was used as a military airfield. 19 After the war it was returned to farm use, but … Air Ministry bought 129 a. of the farm and re-opened the airfield. 20 The college sold more of Suttons to the Air …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… but its southern stretch was closed in 1942 when Stoughton airfield was constructed. At the same time a road leading …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… the bricked-in cloister as a gardener's shed. 21 The airfield on the borders of Husbands Bosworth and Sulby …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… entering the parish a little to the north of Northolt airfield, runs westward for about a mile and then gradually … Brook where it entered the parish north of the modern airfield. Adjoining this Brook Mead was Ickenham Marsh. … along the south side of Austin Lane. 36 Part of Northolt airfield 37 abutted on the south of the parish, but …
A History of the County of Essex
… 170 Matching, 16870, 170 n, 196206, 196, 218 agric., 2023 airfield, 197 barn, 199 boundaries, 1967, 2013 brickmaking, …