airfields with public roads through them

That road is AFAIK open to traffic.

As for Barkston Heath, the hangars over the road were built in wwii and werent used post war. The high dyke rd was closed when the airfield was built in wii. And just remebered that Swinderby had hangars that were seperated from the airfield bya public road.

Holmsley South in the New Forest.

When I was a child immediately after the war (living in the vicinity)I remember there were buildings (not hangars) on the south side of the A35...and at least one taxiway crossed the road...but bear in mind that I would be an age of 5 - 8 yrs old - so detail is lacking .

At Christchurch the blister hangar used by the 87 Gliding School (later 622GS) was on the west side of Mudeford lane - outside the airfield boundary.

Picture below from 1947 clearly shows this.... the red line is Mudeford Lane (a dirt road) ...arrow points to the hangar. Also (incidentally) the green arrow pionts to a small white dot that was the pillbox on the airfield boundary where I first started watching planes from DH/Airspeed and the flying Club in the late 40s early 50s

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Lasham ... the road from the A339 to Shalden & the Golden Pot seperated the northern hangar from the airfield...this was the area that in the 50/60s had a vast number of RCAF Sabres and assorted RAF/RN USAF scrap aircraft.(several hundred in total). Faint traces of the taxiways/frying pan dispersals etc can be seen in GE ... the uppermost(rather poor) photo on my Lasham page clearly shows the area to the north of the road.

Gibraltar runway taken in Sep 2007.

Swinderby always struck me as odd with a road through the middle of the camp, surely this was closed for the duration?

Grafton Underwood had two roads crossing the airfield part of the site, one of which crossed the main runway and could only be used by civilians who held a permit, usually farm and forestry workers on the local estate. The other road was crossed by a number of dispersal and hangar accessways, this had sentry-points at each end to control traffic.

At Deenethorpe, the airfield was connected to all the dispersed sites by a public road, all base traffic had to use this to get around.

All the best,
PB

All the stations with roads going through them such as say Swinderby and Leuchars would indeed have had the roads closed in wwii, and indeed at certain times of tension the roads would be closed.

Wigsley and Winthorpe both had runways that were extended to cross public roads whilst Ossingtons landing area was bisected by the Carlton on Trent to Kneesall road. The original stretch of narrow pre-war lane can still be seen snaking across fields but now long abandoned as today traffic now runs up and down the remains of two runways, hence the needless kink shown on current roadmaps.

Burtonwood ,Burtonwood Road was cut off when runway 09/27 was extended about 1953.
jbmack

Scamptons runway was extended in the mid fifties causing the A15 to be diverted around Scampton. Previously the A15 had run straight as a die from Lincoln to the Humber.