Kirkby Mallory
KIRKBY MALLORY: Military RLG (Relief Landing Ground) (Aka STAPLETON)
Aerial view in 2018
Note: This picture was obtained from Google Earth ©
Military users: WW2: No.7 EFTS DESFORD
Location: 7.5nm SW of Leicester
NOTES: Used as a relief landing ground, dispersal when air raids were imminent, and occasionally for night flying practise using ‘goose-neck’ flares.
Now site of Mallory Park motor race circuit.
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