Church Stretton
Note: This map only shows the position of Church Stretton town within the UK. If anybody can kindly provide a more exact location for the gliding site, this advice will be most welcome.
CHURCH STRETTON: Gliding site
Period of operation: Early to mid 1930s only?
NOTES: It seems that gliding from CHURCH STRETTON was disbanded in 1935, due to the action of Mr Max Wenner who objected to gliders over-flying his grouse moors including those flying from LONG MYND.
It is recorded he fell to his death from 3000ft in the most mysterious of circumstances from a Belgian airliner on the Cologne-Brussels-London route.
In 2017 I found evidence that LONG MYND was known as CHURCH STRETTON well into the 1960s and probably later.
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