Marlborough flying sites
Note: This map only gives the position of Marlborough town within the UK.
MARLBOROUGH see also BROWN'S FARM
MARLBOROUGH see also CLENCH COMMON
MARLBOROUGH see also HIGH TREES
MARLBOROUGH see also MANTON
MARLBOROUGH see also OVERTON HEATH
MARLBOROUGH: Possible temporary landing site?
NOTES: See WORMWOOD SCRUBS, (LONDON), for a fuller account. In May 1913 it was expected that Henri Salmet, embarking on an aeroplane tour of England sponsored by the Daily Mail, would probably be “making a halt at MARLBOROUGH,” en route from READING to BATH. Is there any evidence this happened? It does seem probable that he stopped off at TAPLOW when flying from WORMWOOD SCRUBS to READING
MARLBOROUGH see also SAVERNAKE AERODROME
MARLBOROUGH: Private airstrip
Location: Near Marlborough
Runway: N/S 650 grass
NOTES: Info from the AAIB report EW/G2014/09/05.
MARLBOROUGH: Military airstrip/airfield
Military user: US 5th Armoured Division Command Post
Location: Possibly the SAVERNAKE site?
Period of operation: 1944 only?
Michael Holder
This comment was written on: 2020-06-18 17:13:27From the North Wiltshire Herald - Friday 12 May 1933 - An Air Pageant - probably the Hospitals Pageant - was held at Brown's Farm - 51 24 30"N 001 43 05"W on Thesday 09 May 1933. The site is about 1 mile SSE of Marlborough close to the old tunnel for the Midland and South Western Junction Railway.
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