Overbury
Note: This map shows the position within the UK of the Overbury Estate, still in existence today. If anybody can kindly provide a more exact location for the 'Landing Grounds', this advice will be much appreciated.
OVERBURY: Civil Landing Ground
Operated by: Overbury Estates Co. Ltd
Location: “4m NE of town, (Tewkesbury that is), 5m E of B4079, 1m N jnct. with A438”
Period of operation: 1930s only?
Runways: The map given in the 1930s ‘A.A. Register of Landing Grounds’ shows an unusual layout comprising two separate fields. The biggest is ‘L’ shaped and the smaller field is off the NW corner of the bigger field.
In the southern field the maximum landing runs are, N/S 870 yards (796 metres) and E/W 670 yards (613 metres). In the smaller field the max. landing runs are WNW/ESE 400 yards (366 metres) and SWW/NNE 300 yards (274 metres)
NOTES: It does appear that OVERBURY was in GLOUCESTERSHIRE in the 1930s?
Without seeing the ‘full page’ for this Landing Ground it is very hard to see why the smaller, (NW), field was of any interest or use at all at face value. Perhaps the bigger field became soggier and boggier in a wet spell?
ONE OF SEVENTY FOUR
This was one of the seventy-four A.A. (Automobile Association) approved Landing Grounds in mainland Britain in the 1930s. Fuel and transport (typically a taxi service) was available from Teddington Cross Garage or Pitt’s Garage in Beckford, the latter being over a mile distant. The hotel recommended was the Beckford Hotel, still in business today just W of the A46. A telephone was available at Aston Mill.
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