Aston Down
Aston Down is in Gloucestershire, South West England, 2+1⁄2 miles east of Minchinhampton, 6 miles southeast of Stroud and 7 miles west of Cirencester. The nearest settlement is the large village of Chalford, 1 mile to the northwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: former Royal Air Force airfield in Gloucestershire
- Also known as: “AD”, “Aston Down Airfield”, “RAF Aston Down”, and “RAF Minchinhampton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cotswolds and Gatcombe Park.
Cotswolds
Photo: Katherine Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Cotswolds are a range of rolling hills spread over parts of south-west and south central England. Designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1966, it has unique features derived from the local golden-coloured limestone known as Cotswold stone.
Gatcombe Park
Manor estate
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gatcombe Park is a country house between the villages of Minchinhampton and Avening in Gloucestershire, England. Originally constructed in the 1770s, it was rebuilt from 1820 by George Basevi for the economist David Ricardo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cherington and Frampton Mansell.
Cherington
Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cherington is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England. It lies about 3 miles south east of Minchinhampton and about 4 miles north of Tetbury. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 224.
Frampton Mansell
Village
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Frampton Mansell is a small English village 5 miles east-south-east of Stroud, Gloucestershire, in the parish of Sapperton. It lies off the A419 road between Stroud and Cirencester.
Aston Down
- Categories: air base and transportation
- Location: Minchinhampton, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.70626° or 51° 42′ 23″ northLongitude
-2.13387° or 2° 8′ 2″ westElevation
581 feet (177 metres)Operator
Cotswold Gliding ClubOpen location code
9C3VPV48+GFOpenStreetMap ID
way 288554692OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
11710922Wikidata ID
Q4810966
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Aston Down” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “阿斯顿当”
- Dutch: “Aston Down”
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Aston Down”
- Swedish: “Aston Down”
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Localities in the Area
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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 “Aston Down”. Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.