Warren Farm
WARREN FARM: Private airstrip
Note: All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Location: Roughly between Yoxter and Charterhouse villages, and about 2.5nm ENE of Cheddar town centre
Period of operation: From the 1970s (?) to -
Runways: Not clearly defined as such, but roughly four for most of the period of operation. This said, as the pictures above show, by 2018 the 07/25 runway doesn't appear visible.
However, a mention in Light Aviation magazine, the August 2018, edition, about Ron Perry and three other owners of the German Smaragd version of the Piel Emeraude based at WARREN FARM led me to look again.
I could well be mistaken of course, but the 2016 Google Earth image seems to indicate four favoured landing and take-off 'strips', none of which are prepared. The main 'strip' seems to be 03/21, 490 metres long. In addition there are 02/20 at 370metres, 05/23 at 430 metres and lastly 07/25 at 370 metres. Any advice will be most welcome.
NOTES: The only mention I initially found of this airstrip situated on the Mendip Hills north of Cheddar is an article in the October 2014 issue of Light Aviation magazine. In this article it was claimed that members of the 'MW Club' who celebrate the designs of Mike Whittaker, had held a Fly-In here, in August, for the last twenty-four years.
It was feared that in 2014, this might have been the last meeting to be held. In the 1980s and 90s it seems that some thirty aircraft attended.
A look at this site on Google Earth in 2016 seems to indicate that several microlight types are probably based here.
In the March 2020 edition of Light Aviation magazine, WARREN FARM featured again when Peter R March tells us of his experiences with the Pterodactyl ultralight. Asked to name his worst type flown, he explained:
"The aircraft I found most difficult to fly, and therefore liked the least, is Pterodactyl ultralight. I first met this basic weight-shift machine at Wellesbourne Mountford in 1980 and managed a few hops in the High School of Hang Gliding Limiteds G-BHEY. Run by a former pupil, I was invited to the School's Flying Evening at Warren Farm on the Mendips the following summer."
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