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Lydd

Lydd Airport

London Ashford Airport is an operational general aviation and minor commercial airport located 1 NM east of the town of and 12 NM south of in the district of Folkestone and Hythe, in , .
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Kent, England
  • Also known as: “EGMD”, “London Ashford Airport”, “Lydd”, “Lydd Ferryfield”, and “LYX”

Places of Interest

Highlights include RAF Denge and Romney Sands railway station.

Heritage site
Photo: Paul Russon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Air Force Denge or more simply is a former Royal Air Force site near Dungeness, in , England. It is best known for the early experimental acoustic mirrors which remain there.

Railway station
Photo: Bluebellnutter, CC BY 2.5.
is a station on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in , . It is located on the bleakest part of the , a shingle peninsula.

Church
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lade and Greatstone-on-Sea.

Suburb
Photo: Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lydd is a town and electoral ward in , England, lying on . It is one of the larger settlements on the marsh, and the most southerly town in Kent.

Hamlet
Photo: Paul Russon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Greatstone is a village on the coast of in , England. It is east of the town of and split between the civil parishes of New Romney and .

Town
Photo: Simon Carey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town and electoral ward in , England, lying on . It is one of the larger settlements on the marsh, and the most southerly town in Kent.

Lydd Airport

Latitude
50.95611° or 50° 57′ 22″ north
Longitude
0.93917° or 0° 56′ 21″ east
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
IATA airport code
LYX
ICAO airport code
EGMD
Open location code
9F22XW4Q+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5329577269
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6296602
Wiki­data ID
Q1986577
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Lydd Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Lydd Airport”
  • Danish: “London Ashford Airport”
  • Dutch: “London Ashford Airport (Lydd)”
  • Dutch: “London Ashford Airport”
  • French: “aérodrome de Royaume Uni”
  • French: “aéroport de Londres Ashford”
  • French: “aéroport de Lydd”
  • French: “Aéroport de Lydd”
  • French: “EGMD”
  • French: “Lydd”
  • French: “LYX”
  • German: “Flughafen Lydd”
  • German: “London Ashford Airport”
  • German: “Lydd Airport”
  • Indonesian: “EGMD”
  • Indonesian: “LYX”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Londra-Ashford”
  • Japanese: “リド空港”
  • Japanese: “ロンドン・アッシュフォード空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Lydd”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “London Ashford lufthavn”
  • Norwegian: “London Ashford lufthavn”
  • Persian: “EGMD”
  • Persian: “LYX”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه لید”
  • Piemontese: “London Ashford Airport”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Lydd”
  • Russian: “Лидд”
  • Russian: “Эшфорд”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Lydd”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Lydd”
  • Swedish: “Lydd Airport”
  • Turkish: “Lydd Havalimanı”
  • Urdu: “لیڈ ایئرپورٹ”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Allens Bank and New Romney.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lydd Airport Terminal Building and Cockles Bridge.

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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 “Lydd Airport”. Photo: LyddGC, CC BY-SA 4.0.