Wormingford Glider Field

Wormingford Glider Field is an aerodrome in Fordham, City of Colchester, England. Wormingford Glider Field is situated nearby to the hamlet Fordham, as well as near the locality Wren Wood.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chappel & Wakes Colne railway station and East Anglian Railway Museum.

Chappel & Wakes Colne railway station

Railway station

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Chappel & Wakes Colne railway station is on the Gainsborough Line, a branch to Sudbury off the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Wakes Colne and the neighbouring Chappel.

East Anglian Railway Museum

Museum

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The East Anglian Railway Museum is a railway museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England. The station is on the Sudbury Branch Line, the former Great Eastern Railway route between Marks Tey and Sudbury.

Bures railway station

Railway station

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Bures railway station is on the Gainsborough Line, a branch off the Great Eastern Main Line to Sudbury, in the East of England, serving the village of Bures, which straddles the counties of Essex and Suffolk.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bures and Fordham.

Bures

Village

Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bures is a village in eastern England that straddles the Essex/Suffolk border, made up of two civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and Bures St Mary in Suffolk. In 2011 it had a population of 1433.

Fordham

Hamlet

Photo: Andrew Hill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fordham is a village and civil parish in the Colchester district of Essex, England, six miles north-west of Colchester. As well as Fordham village, the parish also includes the hamlet of Hemp's Green. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 841.

Chappel

Village

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Chappel is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. The River Colne flows through the village. It is significant for its Victorian viaduct, which crosses the Colne valley.

Wormingford Glider Field

Type: Aerodrome
Also known as: “RAF Wormingford”
Category: transportation
Location: Fordham, City of Colchester, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.9394° or 51° 56′ 22″ north

Longitude

0.793° or 0° 47′ 35″ east

Operator

Essex & Suffolk Gliding Club

Open location code

9F32WQQV+Q5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 260985503

OpenStreetMap feature

aeroway=aerodrome

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Localities in the Area

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