Breighton Aerodrome
Breighton Aerodrome is a private aerodrome primarily used for general aviation flying located on the former Royal Air Force Breighton or more simply RAF Breighton, a former Royal Air Force station located near to the village of Breighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “AC”, “Breighton”, “Breighton Airfield”, “EGBR”, “RAF Breighton”, and “Royal Air Force Breighton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of All Saints and Wressle Castle.
Wressle Castle
Castle
Photo: Dupont Circle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wressle Castle is a ruined palace-fortress in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Ordnance Survey grid reference SE 708316. Built for Thomas Percy in the 1390s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Breighton and Menthorpe.
Breighton
Village
Photo: Robert Neilson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Breighton is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the east bank of the River Derwent, approximately 5 miles north-west of Howden. It forms part of the civil parish of Bubwith.
Menthorpe
Hamlet
Menthorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of North Duffield in North Yorkshire, England. It lies on the west bank of the River Derwent, 6 miles east of Selby.
Willitoft
Hamlet
Willitoft is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bubwith, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated just south of the A163 road and west of the B1228 road.
Breighton Aerodrome
- Categories: airport, air base, general aviation airport, Royal Air Force station, and transportation
- Location: Bubwith, East Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.8025° or 53° 48′ 9″ northLongitude
-0.91701° or 0° 55′ 1″ westElevation
23 feet (7 metres)ICAO airport code
EGBROpen location code
9C5XR33M+25OpenStreetMap ID
way 338299498OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
11593560Wikidata ID
Q7275199
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Indonesian—“Breighton Aerodrome” goes by many names.
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Breighton”
- Indonesian: “EGBR”
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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 “Breighton Aerodrome”. Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.