Lympne Airport

Lympne Airport was a military and later civil airfield, at , , , which operated from 1916 to 1984. The airfield was built out of necessity in the First World War.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Abandoned airfield
  • Description: former airport in the United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “ancien aéroport d’Ashford”, “Ashford Airport”, “EGMK”, “LYM”, and “リム空港”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Lympne Castle and Port Lympne Wild Animal Park.

Garden
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is a medieval castle in England that… is situated 1 mile southeast of Lympne Airport.

Zoo
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Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve near the town of … is situated 4,200 feet southwest of Lympne Airport.

Archaeological site
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, also known as Lemanae, was the Latin… is situated 1 mile south of Lympne Airport.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lympne and Newingreen.

Village
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, formerly Lymne, is a village on the former…

Village
is a village in the civil parish…

Village
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Stanford is a village and civil parish in , England.

Lympne Airport

Latitude
51.08325° or 51° 4′ 60″ north
Longitude
1.01576° or 1° 0′ 57″ east
Elevation
328 feet (100 metres)
IATA airport code
LYM
ICAO airport code
EGMK
Open location code
9F3332M8+78
Geo­Names ID
8261503
Wiki­data ID
Q10853368
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Welsh—“Lympne Airport” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Lympne Airport”
  • French: “aéroport de Lympne”
  • French: “Aéroport de Lympne”
  • German: “Flughafen Lympne”
  • Japanese: “リム飛行場”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه لیمپنه”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Lympne”
  • Welsh: “Maes Awyr Lympne”
  • “Lympne”

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