RAF Southrop

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RAF Southrop
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Southrop, Gloucestershire in England
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RAF Southrop
Shown within Gloucestershire
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RAF Southrop
RAF Southrop (the United Kingdom)
Coordinates 51°43′50″N001°44′24″W / 51.73056°N 1.74000°W / 51.73056; -1.74000
Type Royal Air Force Satellite Station
Site information
Owner Air Ministry
Operator Royal Air Force
Controlled by RAF Flying Training Command
Site history
Built1940 (1940)
In use1940 - 1947 (1947)
Battles/wars European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Runways
Direction Length and surface
04/223,060 metres (10,039 ft)  Grass
14/322,790 metres (9,154 ft) Grass
E/W3,450 metres (11,319 ft) Grass

Royal Air Force Southrop or more simply RAF Southrop is a former Royal Air Force Satellite Station west of the village of Southrop, Gloucestershire during the Second World War from August 1940 to November 1945. [1]

Contents

It had three grass runways, [2] It was used as a Relief Landing Ground for Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard training aircraft for No. 23 Group RAF. [3]

The defences included a double pillbox. [4]

The following units were here at some point: [5]

Current use

The site is currently farmland. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Southrop Relief Landing Ground". Pastscape. Historic England. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "RAF Southrop". Lost Airfields. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "RAF Southrop, Glos". Derelict Places. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  4. ↑ "RAF Southrop Defences". Pillbox Study Group. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Southrop". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Archived from the original on 26 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
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