Turweston
Turweston Aerodrome is an airfield located near the village of Turweston, in north Buckinghamshire near the Northamptonshire border. It is a former Royal Air Force Second World War bomber training facility, now a business park and airfield which is home to the Light Aircraft Association.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Duncan Lilly, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: former military airfield in England
- Also known as: “EGBT”, “TU”, “Turweston Aerodrome”, and “Turweston Airport”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St John the Evangelist and Church of St Peter.
Brackley Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brackley Town Hall is a municipal structure in the Market Place, Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. The structure, which serves as the meeting place of Brackley Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitfield and Brackley.
Whitfield
Village
Photo: Snidge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitfield is a village and parish in the south-west of the English county of Northamptonshire in the valley of the River Great Ouse which forms the border with Buckinghamshire.
Brackley
Photo: Jonathan Cardy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brackley is a market town close to the Northamptonshire border with Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Since 1990, it has grown considerably with new housing estates, but retains the original town centre and market feel.
Radstone
Village
Photo: Ben Nicholson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Radstone is a hamlet and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, about 2 miles north of Brackley. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 54. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet remained less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of Whitfield.
Turweston
- Categories: airport, air base, and transportation
- Location: Biddlesden, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.03884° or 52° 2′ 20″ northLongitude
-1.10208° or 1° 6′ 8″ westElevation
433 feet (132 metres)ICAO airport code
EGBTOpen location code
9C4W2VQX+G5OpenStreetMap ID
way 307479167OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
11711642Wikidata ID
Q3914182
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Tajik—“Turweston” goes by many names.
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Turweston”
- German: “Turweston Aerodrome”
- Indonesian: “EGBT”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Turweston”
- Persian: “فرودگاه تروستن”
- Piemontese: “Turweston Aerodrome”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи трустн”
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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 “Turweston”. Photo: Duncan Lilly, CC BY-SA 2.0.