Godmersham Park
GODMERSHAM PARK: Airship Moorings
Aerial view 2018
Note: This picture was obtained from Google Earth ©
Once again, as has so often been the case, I need to thank the Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust web-site for helping me pinpoint this location.
Military users: RNAS/RAF (Royal Naval Air Service / Royal Air Force)
Location: Godmersham is on the A28 roughly 7nm SW of Canterbury
Period of operation: 1918 to 1919
NOTES: This site was a sub-station to CAPEL-le-FERNE. According to some research on the web, it appears that only one airship was moored here at any one time. But why here, so far from the coast?
Perhaps the reason? Is it possible that this site hasn't changed since WW1? If so it clearly offers an ideal mooring, protected by trees from the prevailing sou-westerly winds and gales.
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