Bircham Newton is the smallest of the three villages that make up the civil parish of Bircham, in the west of the English county of Norfolk. The village...
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Royal Air Force Bircham Newton or more simply RAF Bircham Newton is a former Royal Air Force station located 2.1 miles (3.4 km) south east of Docking,...
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Bircham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It includes the three villages of Great Bircham, Bircham Newton and Bircham Tofts. The parish...
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few miles from Bircham Newton in Norfolk, England. It was a satellite airfield for the RAF Coastal Command station at RAF Bircham Newton and was mostly...
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Bircham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, which includes the villages of Great Bircham, Bircham Newton and Bircham Tofts Bircham may...
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Museum & Chapel. Retrieved 19 March 2024. "The RAF Bircham Newton Heritage Centre". RAF Bircham Newton Memorial Project. Archived from the original on 7...
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Burnham Market, Stanhoe, Tattersett, Bircham Tofts (now a footpath), Bircham Newton followed by Great Bircham, and Fring. Docking is a linear or street...
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(the NCC operated from seven locations: Ashbourne, Erith, Inchinnan, Bircham Newton near King's Lynn, King's Norton, Leytonstone and Llangefni), and revert...
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RAF Bircham Newton/RAF Docking No. 1402 (Meteorological) Flight RAF at Aldergrove No. 1403 (Meteorological) Flight RAF at Gosport/Bircham Newton/Gibraltar...
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of the Second World War as a dispersal and satellite station to RAF Bircham Newton. It became operational in the summer of 1940. The airfield was originally...
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Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 11 February 2013. "Bircham Newton". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 11 February 2013...
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Waterloo Arms, a 16th-century thatched pub in Pikes Hill, Lyndhurst RAF Bircham Newton, a former airfield near the village of Docking. Raynham Hall, a country...
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RAF Bircham Newton 15 June 1919 RAF Bircham Newton Became No. 274 Squadron RAF No. 6 (Communication) Squadron RAF March 1919 RAF Bircham Newton 1 October...
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(1941–42) No. 26 (Training) Group (1937–38) RAF Heliopolis (1932–34) RAF Bircham Newton (1931–32) No. 7 Squadron (1929–31) No. 210 Squadron (1920) Battles/wars...
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Avro Ansons as part of the new RAF Coastal Command. It moved to RAF Bircham Newton on 30 July that year. It initially operated as a training squadron,...
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Carew Cheriton until 21 April 1942 when the whole squadron moved to RAF Bircham Newton. No. 321 (Dutch) Squadron RAF formed on the 1 June 1940 at RAF Pembroke...
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then fairly shortly afterwards the family moved to another living at Bircham Newton. She was involved in protracted negotiations to buy Nelson's uniform...
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1920 at RAF Uxbridge. The squadron re-formed on 1 February 1920 at RAF Bircham Newton. Its Airco DH.9As saw service in Turkey in 1922, when it was deployed...
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No. 1 GRU at RAF Manston was joined by a second (No. 2 GRU) at RAF Bircham Newton. To protect the unarmed Wellingtons, Bristol Blenheims of No. 600 Squadron...
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and Mac Kay) Three aircraft were delivered to No. 166 Squadron at RAF Bircham Newton (Norfolk) during October 1918. The squadron commander did not receive...
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the Handley Page V/1500, the largest RAF bomber of its time, at RAF Bircham Newton in May 1919. On 1 August 1919, Tedder accepted a permanent commission...
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not arrive until October 1927. No. 99 Squadron RAF arrived from RAF Bircham Newton in January 1928. The rearmament of Germany in the 1930s led to a change...
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about half a mile south of the village of Bircham Newton, the same distance west of the village of Bircham Tofts,12 miles north-east of the town of King's...
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Norfolk), Billingford (Breckland), Billockby, Binham, Bintree, Bircham Newton, Bircham Tofts, Bittering, Black Carr, Blackborough End, Blakeney, Blakeney...
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to ditch his bombs, and struggled to get his aircraft home. Over RAF Bircham Newton a crewman discovered that one of the plane's 500 lb bombs had become...
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dry land on 5 September 1929, when he was appointed commander of RAF Bircham Newton, Norfolk. On 11 April 1931 he became commander of No. 210 Squadron RAF...
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also based there, the squadron was also equipped with Avro Anson. RAF Bircham Newton, located in Norfolk, England, was home to two No. 16 Group squadrons...
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practice. Operating from rough airstrips was also trialled at nearby RAF Bircham Newton, where the aircraft proved adept at traversing boggy ground and taking...
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of the English County of Norfolk. Its source is near the village of Bircham Newton grid reference TF762 339, 25 metres above sea level. The river is 16...
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Construction Industry Training Board is based on the former airfield of RAF Bircham Newton. Brewer Greene King, food producer Cranswick and feed supplier ForFarmers [nl]...
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