Former RAF Relief Landing Ground in Oxfordshire, England
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Royal Air Force Akeman Street or more simply RAF Akeman Street is a former Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground located 2 miles (3.2 km) north east of Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, England. It was named after the Roman road which crosses the airfield.
The airfield was a Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for RAF Brize Norton, with building starting in 1939 and opening on 10 July 1940.[1] Active flying stopped on 15 August 1945, and the site was closed on 1 February 1947.
^Bowyer, Michael J. F. (1990). Action stations 6: Military Airfields of the Cotswolds and Central Midlands (2 ed.). Wellingborough: Stephens. p. 60. ISBN 1-85260-372-0.
Royal Air Force AkemanStreet or more simply RAFAkemanStreet is a former Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground located 2 miles (3.2 km) north east of...
AkemanStreet is a Roman road in southern England between the modern counties of Hertfordshire and Gloucestershire. It is approximately 117 kilometres...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
1988, p. 103. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...
Storage Units (ASU)s. List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons List of RAF Regiment units List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons List of Army Air...
town, and Chesterton village is on the course of AkemanStreet, the Roman road between Watling Street and Cirencester, about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest...
joined AkemanStreet and Ermin Way at Cirencester, crossed Watling Street at Venonis (High Cross) south of Leicester, and joined Ermine Street at Lincoln...
within the mid-east of the Silverstone Circuit motor racing track, formerly RAF Silverstone. Silverstone Northern Heliport had a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number...
Westcott near the former airfield of RAF Westcott. At Kingswood, it passes the Crooked Billet (now the "Akeman Inn") and Plough and Anchor (now an Italian...
1870s, Long Newnton was described as follows: "The village stands near Akeman-street, and near the boundary with Gloucestershire, 1½ mile E of Tetbury, and...
taking place at Denham Aerodrome since 1915, when during the First World War, RAF Denham was established as a flying training school for Flight Cadets. The...
passing train. A second short branch line, known as the Halton Railway, served RAF Halton near Wendover, across the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal. The...
2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 998. The course of AkemanStreet Roman road passes through the parish just south of the village. Tackley...
however it did not follow Akeman Road between Kirtlington and Chesterton but followed the next road north. The section along Akeman Road was declassified...
June 2012. Elliot, Kirsten (2004). The myth maker: John Wood 1704–1754. Akeman Press. pp. 57–68. ISBN 978-0-9546138-2-2. "Queen Square". UK attractions...
through the centre of Oxford, via Headington, Magdalen Bridge, the High Street, Carfax and Botley, and over the Swinford Toll Bridge to Eynsham. It was...
future urban development of the Tempsford area, particularly the disused RAF Tempsford site.: 100 Although the route into Cambridge via Cambridge South...
implying a military exit. It is a back entrance to RAF Welford, a Second World War airfield and now an RAF/USAF military installation mainly used for storing...
escort carrier HMS Stalker and died in 1943. All Saints' is now part of the Akeman Church of England Benefice, which includes the parishes of Bletchingdon...
its 50th year of opening on 25 April 2015. It originally opened in 1941 as RAF Booker and was primarily involved in training during World War II, remaining...
Aquamannia in the early Middle Ages, this major thoroughfare became known as AkemanStreet. The portion of the road passing just south-east of Stonesfield is now...
the other Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway station at AkemanStreet, provided fast and direct routes to both Paddington and to the Great...
Halton Camp, a base for the Royal Flying Corps, which subsequently became RAF Halton. The line was in use until 1963, and the bridge was demolished as...