Lympne Airport
Lympne Airport was a military and later civil airfield, at Lympne, Kent, United Kingdom, which operated from 1916 to 1984. The airfield was built out of necessity in the First World War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Abandoned airfield
- Description: former airport in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “EGMK” and “LYM”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include RAF Lympne and Lympne Castle.
RAF Lympne
Bunker
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Royal Air Force Lympne or more simply RAF Lympne is a former Royal Air Force satellite station in Kent used during the First and Second World Wars. It was opened in 1916 by the Royal Flying Corps as an acceptance point for aircraft being delivered to, and returned from, France. RAF Lympne is situated 1,800 feet northwest of Lympne Airport.
Lympne Castle
Garden
Photo: Robin Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lympne Castle is a medieval castle in England that is located in the village of Lympne in Kent, above Romney Marsh. It is 18,862 square feet in size and is a Grade I listed property, described as a fortified manor house. Lympne Castle is situated 1 mile southeast of Lympne Airport.
Port Lympne Wild Animal Park
Zoo
Photo: William Warby, CC BY 2.0.
Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve near the town of Hythe, Kent, England is set in 600 acres and incorporates the historic Port Lympne Mansion, and landscaped gardens designed by architect Sir Herbert Baker, for Sir Philip Sassoon. Port Lympne Wild Animal Park is situated 4,200 feet southwest of Lympne Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lympne and Newingreen.
Lympne
Village
Photo: Cockney Laurie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lympne, formerly also Lymne, is a village on the former shallow-gradient sea cliffs above the expansive agricultural plain of Romney Marsh in Kent, England.
Newingreen
Village
Newingreen is a village near Folkestone in Kent, England. It is situated on the junction of the A20 and the historic Stone Street between Lympne and Canterbury. The village is near Junction 11 of the M20. It is in the civil parish of Stanford.
Westenhanger
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanford is a village and civil parish in Kent, England. It is part of the Folkestone and Hythe district. The village developed along the ancient Roman Stone Street and was divided by the construction of the M20 motorway into Stanford North and Stanford South.
Lympne Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Lympne, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Lympne Airport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Lympne Airport” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Lympne Airport”
- French: “Aéroport de Lympne”
- French: “ancien aéroport d’Ashford”
- German: “Flughafen Lympne”
- Indonesian: “EGMK”
- Indonesian: “LYM”
- Japanese: “リム空港”
- Japanese: “リム飛行場”
- Persian: “EGMK”
- Persian: “LYM”
- Persian: “فرودگاه لیمپنه”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Lympne”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Lympne”
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