1 One of five sites built to house airmen stationed at RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. The site was cleared and is now forested.
2 Airfield plan – not to scale.
The site of one of five barracks used by RAF personnel at Wellesbourne Mountfield airfield during the Second World War. It is located in Red Hill Wood.
1 One of five sites built to accommodate RAF personnel near Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield. The site was cleared after the war and is now woodland.
2 Airfield plan – not to ...
The site of one of five barracks used by RAF personnel at Wellesbourne Mountfield airfield during the Second World War. It is located 100m south of Wellesbourne Wood.
1 The wireless telegraph (WT) station for RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. Principally used for communications with aircraft by morse code.
2 Airfield plan – not to scale.
The site of a wireless telegraph station. It was used by Wellesbourne Mountford airfield for communication with aircraft using morse code during the Second World War. It is located 300m west of Red Hill Wood.
1 One of five sites built to accommodate RAF personnel near Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield. The site was cleared after the war and is now woodland.
2 Airfield plan – not to ...
The site of one of five barracks used by RAF personnel at Wellesbourne Mountfield airfield during the Second World War. It is located in Wellesbourne Wood.
1 One of five sites built to house RAF personnel near to Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield. The site was cleared and returned to agricultural use after the war.
2 Airfield plan – ...
The site of one of five barracks used by RAF personnel at Wellesbourne Mountfield airfield during the Second World War. The site is now in agricultural use and is located 200m north of Red Hill jWood.
1 One of five sites built to accommodate RAF personnel near Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield. The site was cleared shortly after the war and returned to agricultural use.
2 Airfield plan – ...
The site of one of five barracks used by RAF personnel at Wellesbourne Mountfield airfield during the Second World War. The site is now in agricultural use and is located 700m north of Red Hill Wood.
1 An underground command post (Type 1108/41) with protected observation cupola. For the defence of airfields primarily in the event of attack by paratroops. Now converted into a museum by ...
A battle headquarters site, an underground command post with protected observation cupola at RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. It was built for the purpose of coordinating the defence of the airfield during the Second World War, primarily in the event of an attack by paratroops.
1 At Flaxland Farm, Pillerton Priors, in a big field known as Coverwell, the RAF installed a dummy runway with landing lights and it was manned every night by RAF ...
The site of Pillerton Priors bombing decoy, a system of lights, fires or dummy objects. The decoy was used to prevent German bomber planes from dropping their bombs on the airfield at Wellesbourne. The decoy was situated to the south east of Pillerton Hersey.
1 Direction finding (D/F) stations enabled aircraft to find their position by taking bearings on two or three stations. The transmissions could be on Medium Frequency (M/F), High Frequency (H/F) ...
The site of a direction finding station which was used by aircraft to find their bearings. It is associated with Wellesbourne Mountford airfield and is situated 900m north of Red Hill Wood.
1 A three runway bomber airfield, with extra facilities for use by fighter aircraft, opened 12 July 1941. From July 1941 to Sept 1942 was a satellite to RAF Wellesbourne ...
RAF Atherstone on Stour, a Second World War bomber airfield with three runways. It opened in 1941 and closed in 1945. The airfield was situated to the north east of Atherstone on Stour.
1 Formal gardens around neo-Jacobean house built 1909-15 for Maj. Emmett. Features included canal, yew-hedged enclosure, rose garden, wild garden. Sold 1944, demolished 1959, grounds redeveloped. Lodges survive. Recommended for ...
Formal gardens laid in formal style around an early 20th century house, demolished in 1959; but a lodge survives. The gardens are located at Moreton Paddox.
1 A semi sunken air raid shelter with earth covering. Internally about 28ft (8.5m) long and 6ft 8ins (2m) wide and has an arched roof with 6ft 3ins (1.9m) clearance ...
The site of an air raid shelter which was in use during the Second World War. It is semi-sunken with an earth covering and is situated to the north east of RAF Wellesbourne Mountfield.
1 The sandstone ashlar bridge was constructed between 1791 and 1839. It was widened sometime between 1840 and 1887. The bridge parapets had been repeatedly repaired in the 20th century. ...
Sandstone ashlar bridge. The earliest part of the bridge dated to the late 18th/Early 19th century. Now demolished due to it being a cause of flooding. It was formerly Grade II Listed.
1 Moreton Hall built 1907-8 by W.H. Romaine Walker for American Charles Garland. Grounds include terraces, formal gardens, avenue, yew-hedged enclosures and grotto. Now Warwickshire College. Recommended for inclusion on ...
Park and grounds surrounding the early 20th century mansion of Moreton Hall. The features of the park include a formal garden, walks, terraces and a grotto.
1 A gas pipeline was scheduled to cut a 24m swathe through a ‘triple ring ditch and henge monument’ at the above grid reference.
2 Excavation proved the features to be ...
The site of a Second World War searchlight battery. It was discovered during the excavation of a pipeline. It was situated 1km north west of Wellesbourne Wood, near Loxley.
1 A three runway bomber airfield opened June 1942 as a satellite to RAF Chipping Warden but soon transferred to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. Major facilities included: two 1400 yard (1.28Km) ...
RAF Gaydon was a Second World War bomber airfield. It opened in 1942 as a satellite airfield to RAF Chipping Warden and later to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. It is located 1.5km north of Chadshunt church.