Leeds East Airport
Leeds East Airport Church Fenton, formerly RAF Church Fenton, is an airport and former Royal Air Force station located 4.3 miles south-east of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England and 6.3 miles north-west of Selby, North Yorkshire, near the village of Church Fenton.Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport and former Royal Air Force station located 4.3 miles (6.9 km) south east of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “EGXG”, “Leeds East Airport Church Fenton”, and “RAF Church Fenton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ulleskelf railway station and Church Fenton railway station.
Ulleskelf railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dupont Circle, Public domain.
Ulleskelf railway station in Ulleskelf, North Yorkshire, England, is 8.75 miles south of York.
Church Fenton railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Armitstead, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church Fenton railway station serves the village of Church Fenton, in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated where the Cross Country Route meets the Dearne Valley line, just under 10.75 miles from York.
Nun Appleton Priory
Historic house
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Nun Appleton Priory was a priory near Appleton Roebuck, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded as a nunnery c. 1150, by Eustace de Merch and his wife. It was dissolved by 1539, when the nuns were receiving pensions.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ulleskelf and Church Fenton.
Ulleskelf
Village
Photo: Robert Neilson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ulleskelf is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, four miles from Tadcaster on the River Wharfe. Its name comes from the Scandinavian personal name Úlfr, while skelf may be an Old English word meaning "a flat area", although it could be from the Old Scandinavian equivalent, 'skialf' as in several other English place names, e.g. Hunshelf, Wadshelf.
Church Fenton
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church Fenton is a village and civil parish in the North Yorkshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is about 16 miles east of Leeds, about 6 miles south-east from Tadcaster and 3 miles north from Sherburn in Elmet.
Cawood
Village
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Cawood is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England that is notable as the location of the Cawood sword. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Cawood belonged to the Liberty of Cawood, Wistow and Otley.
Leeds East Airport
- Categories: airport, Royal Air Force station, and transportation
- Location: Ulleskelf, Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.8367° or 53° 50′ 12″ northLongitude
-1.1933° or 1° 11′ 36″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
9C5WRRP4+MMOpenStreetMap ID
way 88511787OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeWikidata ID
Q7275242
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“Leeds East Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Church Fenton (tugpahanan)”
- German: “Leeds East Airport”
- Indonesian: “EGXG”
- Japanese: “リーズイースト空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Leeds East”
- Malay: “Pengkalan Udara Church Fenton”
- Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی چرچ فنتون”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Leeds East”
- Swedish: “Church Fenton (flygplats)”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво салтанате чрч фан”
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