Kings Farm
KINGS FARM: Private airstrip, later airfield (Aka STRATFIELD SAYER)
Note: For this 'Guide', where deciding on definitions can be fraught with problems, I have decided that an airstrip is just that - singular. For private locations with two or more runways, I label them airfields.
Note: The first three pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©. The area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
Location: NW of the A33, just SE of Stratfield Sayer village, about 6.5nm NNE to NE of Basingstoke town centre and roughly 7nm SSW of Reading town centre
Period of operation: 2018 to -
Runway(s): Initially in 2018 - 02/20 230 grass (Not used in 2020?)
By 2021: 02/20 150 grass 11/29 150 grass
NOTES: We have Mr Graham Frost, a great friend of this 'Guide', for pointing out this location, clearly used by microlight/STOL types. As no evidence of a hangar can be seen, presumably laid out for visitors?
Over the years that I have been compiling this 'Guide', and having spent over a quarter of a century partly earning my living as a freelance photographer, I do like to illustrate this 'Guide' with pictures, and Google Earth © is ideal in most respects. However, one aspect that I cannot understand is why their dating system is so unreliable. I would have thought, given the immense sophistication of satellite technology, that putting dates on images would be really easy these days.
Even quite basic cameras can provide this information, but, it appears, this is quite beyond the capabilities of people working on Google Earth images. Indeed, even in 2023, (when this listing was made), exactly the same picture can be seen dated both 2021 and 2023!
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