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European Theatre of World War II Air Offensive, Europe July 1942 – May 1945
Airfield information
Elevation
63 metres (207 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
03/21
1,170 metres (3,839 ft) Concrete
08/26
1,745 metres (5,725 ft) Concrete
14/32
1,260 metres (4,134 ft) Concrete
Rougham Airfield, formerly Royal Air Force Bury St Edmunds or more simply RAF Bury St Edmunds is a former Royal Air Force station located 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. It is not to be confused with the RAF grass strip on the western side of Bury St Edmunds known as RAF Westley, an area now part of the town itself.
The airfield was originally and is now again known as Rougham as it is located north of that village between the A14 and the main railway line between Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich. It was built during 1941 and 1942 with three intersecting concrete runways. The main runway of 2,000 yards was aligned approximately E–W. It saw extensive use during the Second World War.
RoughamAirfield, formerly Royal Air Force Bury St Edmunds or more simply RAF Bury St Edmunds is a former Royal Air Force station located 3 miles (4.8 km)...
Gibraltar Barracks in 1878. During the Second World War, the USAAF used RoughamAirfield outside the town. On 3 March 1974 a Turkish Airlines DC10 jet Flight...
Cirencester. He succeeded in the baronetcy in 1994. The Rougham estates include RoughamAirfield, where Agnew organizes a wide variety of annual fairs,...
covering the villages of Blackthorpe, Rougham and Rushbrooke as well as RoughamAirfield. Located directly south-east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population...
ran for seventeen years. He also later acted as events consultant at RoughamAirfield near Bury St Edmunds, producing five open air shows a year and expanded...
against Suffolk at Bury St Edmunds racecourse (today the location of RoughamAirfield) on 23 August. Norfolk won this match, which was reported in the Gazetteer...
In late September, the squadron moved from England to Beauvais/Tille Airfield, France. It bombed bridges, road junctions, defended villages, and ordnance...
The new post office was built in Exchange Street. There were two local airfields during the Second World War, one at Deopham Green (Station 142) and one...
In late September, the squadron moved from England to Beauvais/Tille Airfield, France. It bombed bridges, road junctions, defended villages, and ordnance...
day care centre for the elderly, it hosts part of the RAF Watton wartime airfield (now belonging to the USAAF), and the category C Wayland (HM Prison). It...
while the River Wissey rises to the north and flows westwards. Shipdham Airfield (formerly RAF Shipdham) is located east of the village. The village was...
Heath Country Park and the remains of RAF Knettishall, a World War II airfield. Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Archived 2008-12-19...
Heath, the northwest corner of which borders on Exning, was used as an airfield for, amongst others, Stirling III Bombers of No. 75 (NZ) Squadron RAF....
of 2018 has a Londis shop which is also the post office. Old Buckenham Airfield lies to the north-east of the village. It was the home of the 453rd Bomb...
Germans in a Focke-Wulf bomber, converted for parachuting, from Le Bourget airfield. He was equipped with wireless, pistol, cyanide capsule and £1,000 and...
site has been returned to agricultural use, and little remains of the airfield facilities. The nearby Cavenham Heath National Nature Reserve is breeding...
Lidgate to its southern border near HMP Highpoint, formerly Stradishall airfield. Its north-west border is the county boundary between Suffolk and the parish...
carried out by John Laing & Son Ltd., and built to Class A standard, the airfield had three concrete runways, 05-23 at 2,000 yards and 12-30 and 17-35 both...
February 2009 Bernard Matthews detailed plans to put two turbines at the airfield site, an independent development to the eight turbines already there. North...
the Blackbourne, runs along the east of the village. The RAF Honington airfield covers much of the western part of the parish. A poem, "The Fakenham Ghost"...
During the First World War, RAF Mattishall was used as a night-landing airfield for aircraft of No. 51 Squadron RAF, flying interception missions against...
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