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]
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Air Ministry | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Southrop, Gloucestershire, England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Built | 1940 | ||||||||||||||||||
| In use | 1940-1947 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°43′50″N 001°44′24″W / 51.73056°N 1.74000°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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  RAF Southrop Location in Gloucestershire | |||||||||||||||||||
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It had three grass runways,[2] It was used as a Relief Landing Ground for Airspeed Oxford and 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 edit
The site is currently farmland.[5]
References edit
- ^ "Southrop Relief Landing Ground". Pastscape. Historic England. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ "RAF Southrop". Lost Airfields. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ "RAF Southrop, Glos". Derelict Places. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ "RAF Southrop Defences". Pillbox Study Group. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ a b "Southrop". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Archived from the original on 26 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.