RAF Narborough was a military aerodrome in Norfolk operated in the First World War. It opened on 28 May 1915, originally as a Royal Naval Air Station for...
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in August 1916 close to the former Royal Naval Air Station Narborough, later RAF Narborough, the Marham base was originally a military night landing ground...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (redirect from List of former RAF stations)
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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Narborough is a village of 1405 hectares in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England, with a population of 1,094 at the 2011 census. It is situated in...
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Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 23 November 2016. "Narborough Aerodrome". Royal Air Force. Retrieved 23 November 2016. "The Control...
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arriving at RAF Narborough along with No. 60 Squadron and No. 64 Squadron. Only days after being disbanded, No. 80 Squadron, based at RAF Aboukir, in...
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Royal Air Force, based in Norfolk, England. No.59 Squadron was formed at Narborough Airfield in Norfolk on 1 August 1916 as a squadron of the Royal Flying...
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service number 22360. She worked in the officers' mess at RAF Marham and was also based at Narborough airfield. In 1920, she moved to King's Lynn. She married...
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Royal Flying Corps (Royal Air Force from 1 April 1918) was formed at Narborough on 1 January 1918 as a day bomber squadron to operate the Airco DH.9....
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Hickling Broad, Norfolk Hornsea Mere, Yorkshire Lee-On-Solent, Hampshire Narborough, Norfolk Newlyn, Cornwall Pulham St Mary, Norfolk Scarborough, Yorkshire...
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Gate. The alignment terminates at the Clock Tower, and picks up again at Narborough Road (the A5460), on the other side of the River Soar. A 19 miles (31 km)...
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and Narborough. Further south it is more rural, with the largest settlement the old market town of Lutterworth. Nearby is the former site of RAF Bitteswell...
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ground-attack operations for the remainder of the First World War. It returned to Narborough in February 1919, where it was disbanded on 31 December 1919. During the...
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15-year-old Dawn Ashworth did not return home after visiting a friends house in Narborough, Leicestershire, on 31 July 1986. Two days later her body was found nearby...
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facilities. Narborough and Marham both started off as Night Landing Grounds a few miles apart. One was an RNAS Station, the other RFC. Narborough grew to...
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Docking, Norfolk (section RAF Docking)
Hunstanton. The B1153 crosses this at the village, running from Brancaster to Narborough, and the B1155 runs from the village to Burnham Market. Until 1952 the...
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Bircham Newton (section RAF Bircham Newton)
listed. Bircham Newton is located along the B1153, which runs between Narborough and Brancaster. According to the 1931 census, Bircham Newton had a population...
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Sir John Narborough, and Sir Cloudesley Shovell. Between 1940 and 1961, Cockthorpe was host to RAF Langham, a satellite airfield for RAF Bircham Newton...
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of the British Army, to form an independent service, the Royal Air Force (RAF). Currently the abbreviation RNAS stands for "Royal Naval Air Station", and...
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the north. The old route through Leicester was redesignated the A5460 (Narborough Road, in the southwest) and A607 (Belgrave Road/Melton Road, in the northeast)...
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Retrieved 19 November 2021. "RAF Marham - RAF Marham 1916 - 1919". Archived from the original on 13 July 2007. "RAF Marham - Narborough Aerodrome". Archived from...
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(RAF). 2015. Archived from the original on 3 October 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2015. "2 Squadron". RAF. 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015. "3 Squadron". RAF....
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Since 1940 the village has been home to Robertson Barracks, formerly called RAF Swanton Morley. During the Second World War the first British and US combined...
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owned by Equifax. Santander (former Alliance & Leicester) is based in Narborough. Barclaycard is headquartered in Northampton, and Nationwide has a large...
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St Michael, Mousehold Heath, Mulbarton, Mundford, Mundesley, Mundham. Narborough, Narford, Neatishead, Necton, Nethergate, New Buckenham, New Costessey...
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David's and Bishop of Bath and Wells Robert Moss, Dean of Ely Dudley Narborough, Bishop of Colchester John Perowne, Bishop of Worcester William Purcell...
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eastwards and north of Notre Dame Wood. It passes north of Highfield Farm and Narborough House, and Upper Stoke (part of the parish). It passes on the western...
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Retrieved 16 February 2020. "RAF parade marks freedom of town". BBC News. 9 June 2019. Langford, Mark (7 June 2019). "RAF Honington gets ready for Freedom...
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1918[citation needed] Stamford, England, 7 January 1918 Detachment assigned to Narborough, England, 7 January 1918 – 15 August 1918[citation needed] Southampton...
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the army's vehicles, tanks, guns, ammunition and heavy equipment and the RAF's ground equipment and stores were left behind in France. Some soldiers even...
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