Cann Common
CANN COMMON: Private Landing Ground (Aka SHAFTESBURY)
Operated by: 1930s: Mr J Young, Cannfield Farm, Shaftesbury
Location: 1.5nm SE of Shaftesbury on the B3081
Period of operation: 1930s only?
Runway: 1933: Max landing run 549 grass
Note: According to the Dorset Airfields web-site there were three grass runways;
00/18* 367 grass 06/24 439 grass 09/27 549 grass
*Today of course this would be known as 18/36
NOTES: It appears that on the 2nd May 1933, Alan Cobham’s 1933 No.2 Tour of the UK displayed here.
This was one of seventy-four A.A. (Automobile Association) approved Landing Grounds on mainland Britain in the 1930s. Fuel and transport, (the latter typically being a taxi service), was available from Cann Garage, Shaftesbury. The hotels recommended were the Grosvenor Hotel or the Coombe House Hotel, also in Shaftesbury. Today the Grosvenor Hotel is still very much in business but the Coombe House Hotel appears to have disappeared.
It also appears that a telephone was available at the garage, (Cann Garage presumably?), and the Landing Ground had no hangars.
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