Marwell Hall
MARWELL HALL: Civil satellite/storage airfield (Also known simply as MARWELL)
Operated by: Cunliffe Owen Aircraft (Based at EASTLEIGH). It seems Air Service Training also used the site towards the end of operations here
Location: Roughly 3.5nm N of EASTLEIGH, just N of the B2177, (previously the A333), situated S of Marwell Hall, the home of Mr R Hayes, managing director of Cunliffe Owen Aircraft
Period of operation: 1941 to 1944
Runway: Roughly E/W 914 grass
NOTES: According to reports I would rate this site as yet another extraordinary insight into the wonderful varieties of effort and endeavour offered up by British avation history. Being basically the ‘back or front garden’ of Marwell Hall the ‘airfield’ handled aircraft modified at the company factory at EASTLEIGH. Incredibly it seems to me, about twenty hangars were built amongst the trees handling types as diverse as Spitfires, Bostons, Hudsons, Halifaxes, Blenheims and AirCobras!
The site was also later used by Willmot and Manser Experimental Aircraft - what became of this enterprise?
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