Bowerchalke Airfield

Bowerchalke Airfield is an airstrip in Bower Chalke, Wiltshire, England. Bowerchalke Airfield is situated nearby to the peak Woodminton Down, as well as near the forest Stonedown Wood.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Garston Wood and Church of Holy Trinity, Bowerchalke.

Garston Wood

Nature reserve

Photo: Nigel Freeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Garston Wood is a 34-hectare woodland nature reserve in Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England, near the boundary with Wiltshire. It is at grid reference SU004190, around 15 km SE of Shaftesbury and around 3 km north of the village of Sixpenny Handley, owned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to protect species living in the region.

Church of Holy Trinity, Bowerchalke

Church

Photo: Chalkeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Church of Holy Trinity, Bowerchalke is situated 1½ miles northeast of Bowerchalke Airfield.

Martin and Tidpit Downs

Grassland

Martin and Tidpit Downs is a 367.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Fordingbridge in Hampshire. Martin Down is a 341-hectare national nature reserve and an area of 115 hectares is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Bokerley Dyke, a prehistoric linear earthwork and scheduled monument, runs through the site. Martin and Tidpit Downs is situated 2 miles east of Bowerchalke Airfield.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woodyates and Bowerchalke.

Woodyates

Hamlet

Photo: Paul Billington, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Woodyates is a hamlet, sometimes considered a village, in the civil parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the county of Dorset, near its border with Wiltshire, in the west of England.

Bowerchalke

Village

Photo: Chalkeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bowerchalke is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 9 miles southwest of Salisbury. It is in the south of the county, about 1 mile from the boundary with Dorset and 2 miles from that with Hampshire. Bowerchalke is situated 1½ miles north of Bowerchalke Airfield.

Sixpenny Handley

Village

Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sixpenny Handley or Handley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in north east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase ten miles north east of Blandford Forum. Sixpenny Handley is situated 2 miles south of Bowerchalke Airfield.

Bowerchalke Airfield

Type: Airstrip
Category: transportation
Location: Bower Chalke, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.98382° or 50° 59′ 2″ north

Longitude

-1.99106° or 1° 59′ 28″ west

Open location code

9C2WX2M5+GH

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6232894208

OpenStreetMap feature

aeroway=airstrip

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Highlights include Woodminton Down and Stonedown Wood.

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