Lashenden
Headcorn Aerodrome is a private airfield in Kent, England. The airfield is located 8 NM south of Maidstone; about 32 miles southeast of London. Opened in 1943 during the Second World War, it was named RAF Lashenden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airfield in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “EGKH”, “Headcorn Aerodrome”, “Headcorn Airfield”, “Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield”, and “RAF Lashenden”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lashenden Air Warfare Museum and Headcorn railway station.
Lashenden Air Warfare Museum
Museum
Lashenden Air Warfare Museum is an aviation museum at Lashenden Airfield in Kent in southeast England.
Headcorn railway station
Railway station
Photo: Anthony Eden, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Headcorn railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the village of Headcorn, Kent. It is 45 miles 20 chains down the line from London Charing Cross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Biddenden and Grafty Green.
Biddenden
Village
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biddenden is a large, mostly agricultural and wooded village and civil parish in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. The village lies on the Weald of Kent, 5 miles north of Tenterden.
Grafty Green
Village
Grafty Green is a village in the Maidstone district of Kent, England, falling within the civil parish of Boughton Malherbe. It contains two public houses.
Boughton Malherbe
Village
Photo: Dave Skinner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boughton Malherbe is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent, England, equidistant between Maidstone and Ashford. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 428, including Sandway and Grafty Green, increasing to 476 at the 2011 Census. Boughton Malherbe is situated 4½ miles northeast of Lashenden.
Lashenden
- Categories: air base and transportation
- Location: Headcorn, Maidstone, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.15635° or 51° 9′ 23″ northLongitude
0.64191° or 0° 38′ 31″ eastElevation
66 feet (20 metres)Operator
Mr. J.P.A. FreemanICAO airport code
EGKHOpen location code
9F325J4R+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 413881123OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Tajik—“Lashenden” goes by many names.
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Lashenden”
- Indonesian: “EGKH”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Headcorn”
- Persian: “فرودگاه لاشندن”
- Piemontese: “Lashenden - Headcorn Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи лошндн”
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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 “Lashenden”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.