Disused airfield Waltham Cross. Name the airfield.
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Disused airfield Waltham Cross. Name the airfield.
I'm staying in a hotel at Theobolds Park, Waltham Cross. I can see a disused airfield on the map in the NW crook of the M25 /A10. Does anyone know which airfield this used to be?
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Broxbourne I think... Looking at the map, isn't that now the Newsprint plant, can't remember whose!
Edit: looking at some historic maps online, nothing shows infuriatingly!
Edit: looking at some historic maps online, nothing shows infuriatingly!
I believe Broxbourne is now a gravel pit and thus wouldn't be visible.
I seem to recall there was an airfield called Waltham Cross.
I seem to recall there was an airfield called Waltham Cross.
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Chingford or more probably , possibly , Fairlop ?
If it's the area described by 18greens Google Earth reveals the aeronautical place names of Dowding Way , Mollison Avenue and Cunningham Avenue or is that just a coincidence ?
If it's the area described by 18greens Google Earth reveals the aeronautical place names of Dowding Way , Mollison Avenue and Cunningham Avenue or is that just a coincidence ?
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Correction
Apologies, it's in the north west quadrant of the M25/A10. Only one runway showing oriented roughly 24/06.
Post code EN7 5HW is the closest one I can find to it on google maps.
Post code EN7 5HW is the closest one I can find to it on google maps.
I lived close to that area for 18 years, and drove past it twice a day for 11 years, before and after the M25 was built, and I've never heard of or seen anything there.
I had the relevant Action Stations at the time, and the book covering all military airfields, so if there had been anything mentioned I'd have gone to look.
Broxbourne Aerodrome is gravel pits and has been for many years. There's absolutely no trace of it now. It's hard to believe there could ever have been an airfield there.
I had the relevant Action Stations at the time, and the book covering all military airfields, so if there had been anything mentioned I'd have gone to look.
Broxbourne Aerodrome is gravel pits and has been for many years. There's absolutely no trace of it now. It's hard to believe there could ever have been an airfield there.
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I noticed what you meant last night - looks like some sort of trackway to Theobalds Park Farm.
Good site if you haven't seen it before - pity the TQ series isn't complete (yet!). Wondered why parts of London were rather undetailed, then remembered the TQs were just post WWII!
Good site if you haven't seen it before - pity the TQ series isn't complete (yet!). Wondered why parts of London were rather undetailed, then remembered the TQs were just post WWII!
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Not an airfield, I'm local to the area and although it looks like a dug-out runway it's not.
The 'river' to the west is the New river which would have made any airfield in that direction impractical and to the east is the A10 which was built in the 1930's which again would have made any such development impractical.
I wish it was, I used to'commute' to Gransden when I flew.
The 'river' to the west is the New river which would have made any airfield in that direction impractical and to the east is the A10 which was built in the 1930's which again would have made any such development impractical.
I wish it was, I used to'commute' to Gransden when I flew.
