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A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… the north part of the parish, were inclosed in 1803. 3 An airfield was laid out on the former downs in 1940; intended … local roads (some of which were partly obliterated by the airfield), 24 and the downs appear to have once been a focal … that purpose. 68 A building transferred from the disused airfield at Rendcomb was opened as a village hall, affiliated …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the site of Bell Farm. A wooden building used at Yatesbury airfield in the First World War was re-erected in the Street … north of Cherhill village in 1953 and later. 60 Yatesbury airfield, in use in the First World War and again from 1936, … in Calne parish. It was used for radar training and had no airfield; married quarters were built in Calne parish. Like …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Jnl. (1984); interviews. Below, Teversham, econ. hist. (airfield); Sir A. Marshall, The Marshall Story (1994), 240. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… including Ford prison and the southern part of Ford airfield, was transferred to Ford in 1985. 74 The present … of that atmosphere survived on the remoter parts of Ford airfield in 1990. Climping's coastline then remained largely … partly due to the increase of personnel on the enlarged airfield. In 1971 the population was 963, and in 1991 that of …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Hull was among the first cities to establish a municipal airfield. In 1929 Hedon Racecourse and Twyers Farm, c. 200 acres in all, were acquired as a site, and the airfield was opened in that year. 256 It was requisitioned in … fifties and sixties, 259 and services to and from Brough airfield began in 1966. 260 P.N.E.R. Yorks. (E.P.N.S.), …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 20th-century farmstead was called West Nolands. A military airfield opened in 1916, later the airfield of R.A.F. Yatesbury, lay south of Juggler's Lane on … the boundary of Cherhill and Yatesbury south-east of the airfield. The R.A.F. station was used for wireless, signals, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the parish east of the Crane for the extension of Heston airfield, but the airfield was abandoned after the Second World War and most of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Blenheim Est. (1921). PRO, MAF 32/911/106; for the airfield, above, intro. Showell farm was let in two halves. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the late 16th century but suppressed in the 1850s. 95 Airfield Akeman Street airfield, straddling the Roman road in the the township's … life: 15501800, 18001900). P. W. Davis, 'Akeman Street Airfield', Rec. Witney, 2 (Dec. 1977). …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… In 1943 the Air Ministry requisitioned the land for the airfield of RAF Blakehill Farm, and at the end of the war … 878) in High Street. The 36 a. in Purton was part of the airfield of RAF Blakehill Farm from 1943 and was sold to the …