RAF Oakley

RAF Oakley is a former Royal Air Force satellite station between Oakley and Worminghall, Buckinghamshire, England. It was located in a flat, damp wooded area.

Photo: Jackie Harman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Airfield
Description: disused British military airfield
Also known as: “OY”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bernwood Forest and Church of St Peter and St Paul.

Bernwood Forest

Forest

Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bernwood Forest is a forest in England. Historically it was one of several forests of the ancient Kingdom of England and was a Royal hunting forest. It is thought to have been set aside as Royal hunting land when the Anglo-Saxon kings had a palace at Brill and church in Oakley, in the 10th century and was a particularly favoured place of Edward the Confessor, who was born in nearby Islip. Bernwood Forest is situated 1½ miles northwest of RAF Oakley.

Church of St Peter and St Paul

Church

Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Mary

Church

Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waterperry and Honeyburge.

Waterperry

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Waterperry is a village in the civil parish of Waterperry with Thomley, in the South Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It lies about 7 miles east of Oxford and is in the valley of the River Thame, close to the county boundary with Buckinghamshire. Waterperry is situated 2 miles south of RAF Oakley.

Honeyburge

Village

Photo: Jackie Harman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Honeyburge is a hamlet in the civil parish of Boarstall in Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet is on Dane's Brook next to Boarstall Wood. Honeyburge is 0.25 miles east of the M40 motorway, less than 0.5 miles south of Boarstall village and about 8 miles by road south of the market town of Bicester in neighbouring Oxfordshire. Honeyburge is situated 2 miles northwest of RAF Oakley.

Draycot

Hamlet

Photo: Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Draycot is a hamlet on the River Thame, in the civil parish of Tiddington-with-Albury, in the South Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. Draycot is situated 2½ miles south of RAF Oakley.

RAF Oakley

Categories: Royal Air Force station, airbase, and transportation
Location: Worminghall, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.78531° or 51° 47′ 7″ north

Longitude

-1.07486° or 1° 4′ 30″ west

Elevation

236 feet (72 metres)

Open location code

9C3WQWPG+43

GeoNames ID

11593555

Wikidata ID

Q7275511

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“RAF Oakley” goes by many names.

French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
French: “RAF Oakley”

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