Originally Posted by
dixi188
What about the ones that have been built over?
Christchurch has a road called "The Runway" but it's not very straight and there is nothing else to see except roads with randomly selected aircraft names.
Well yes, former airfields in urban areas make prime sites for housing.
But even Christchurch has some surviving features - there's enough open space left (just) to be able to deduce the position and orientation of the hard runway, and some of the original Airspeed/de Havilland factory buildings survive. Part of the original grass airfield is now school playing fields and one of the biggest giveaways is the gap in Mudeford Wood through which the taxiway between the factory and the runway used to pass.