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.

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Type: Abandoned airfield
Description: former airport in the United Kingdom
Also known as: “Ashford Airport”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lympne Castle and Port Lympne Wild Animal Park.

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.

Portus Lemanis

Archaeological site

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Portus Lemanis, also known as Lemanae, was the Latin name of a Roman Saxon Shore fort, settlement and port in southern Kent. The modern village of Lympne derives its name from the ancient port. Portus Lemanis is situated 1 mile south 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 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 in the civil parish of Stanford, in the Folkestone and Hythe district, in Kent, England, near Folkestone. It is situated on the junction of the A20 and the historic Stone Street between Lympne and Canterbury.

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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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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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: “Aéroport de Lympne”
French: “ancien aéroport d’Ashford”
German: “Flughafen Lympne”
Japanese: “リム空港”
Japanese: “リム飛行場”
Persian: “فرودگاه لیمپنه”
Romanian: “Aeroportul Lympne”
Welsh: “Maes Awyr Lympne”
“EGMK”
“LYM”
“Lympne”

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