Sleap Airfield
Sleap Airfield is located 10 NM north of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Sleap Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Donald Farnworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airfield in Shropshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “EGCV” and “RAF Sleap”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yorton railway station and St Anne’s Mission Room.
Yorton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
Yorton railway station serves the villages of Yorton and Clive in Shropshire, England. It is 7¼ miles north of Shrewsbury on the Welsh Marches Line towards Crewe.
St Anne’s Mission Room
Church
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Anne’s Mission Room is a church.
Wem Town Hall
Arts center
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wem Town Hall is a building in the market-town of Wem in Shropshire, England. It is currently used as a venue for music and dance concerts, films, stage shows and exhibitions.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burlton and Tilley.
Tilley
Village
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tilley is a small village in the civil parish of Wem Rural, to the south of and almost merged with Wem in north Shropshire. A hamlet, Tilley Green, lies to its southeast at grid reference SJ511273.
Myddle
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Myddle—also formerly known as Mydle, Middle, Midle, M'dle, Meadley and Medle—is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Myddle, Broughton and Harmer Hill, in the Shropshire Council district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, about 10 miles north of Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire.
Sleap Airfield
- Categories: air base, Royal Air Force station, and transportation
- Location: Myddle, Broughton and Harmer Hill, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.83336° or 52° 50′ 0″ northLongitude
-2.77056° or 2° 46′ 14″ westElevation
279 feet (85 metres)Operator
Shropshire Aero Club LtdICAO airport code
EGCVOpen location code
9C4VR6MH+8QOpenStreetMap ID
way 29333544OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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In Other Languages
From French to Tajik—“Sleap Airfield” goes by many names.
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- Indonesian: “EGCV”
- Japanese: “スリープ飛行場”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Sleap”
- Persian: “فرودگاه صحرایی اسلیپ”
- Piemontese: “Sleap Airfield”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи саҳро ослип”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Sleap and Brandwood.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Wartime Aircraft Recovery Group Museum and Sleap Gorse.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sleap Airfield”. Photo: Donald Farnworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.