Airfield defence structures at Baginton Airfield
Description of this historic site
Airfield defence structures can be seen on aerial Photographs at Baginton Airfield
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Notes about this historic site
1 Airfield defence structures seen on aerial Photographs at Baginton Airfield mapped as part of the English Heritage (EH) National Mapping Project (NMP). The structures are located in the south east conrner of the airfield where a dispersal area for heavy bombers has been constructed. There are three concrete lined pits laid out in an L shape and a fourth structure that is constructed from concrete and is partially burried beneath a substantial earth mound. The function of these structures is uncertain.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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Could this be the remains of ain open aircraft holding pen which would have taken the form of a large square c shaped earthbank enclosing concrete air raid shelters with one having an exit to the outside of the pen. If the intervening earth banks have been levelled it may well fit the description given . I recently visited a site at Honiley airfield visible from the road from Wroxall that was identified as such.
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