RAF Southrop

RAF Southrop
RAF Southrop
Southrop, Gloucestershire in England
	RAF Southrop Shown within Gloucestershire RAF Southrop RAF Southrop (the United Kingdom)
Coordinates	51°43′50″N 001°44′24″W / 51.73056°N 1.74000°W
Type	Royal Air Force Satellite Station
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Flying Training Command
Site history
Built	1940
In use	1940 - 1947
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Runways
04/22	3,060 metres (10,039 ft) Grass
14/32	2,790 metres (9,154 ft) Grass
E/W	3,450 metres (11,319 ft) Grass

Royal Air Force Southrop or more simply RAF Southrop is a former Royal Air Force Satellite Station west of the village of Southrop, Gloucestershire during the Second World War from August 1940 to November 1945.^[1]

It had three grass runways,^[2] It was used as a Relief Landing Ground for Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard training aircraft for No. 23 Group RAF.^[3]

The defences included a double pillbox.^[4]

The following units were here at some point:^[5]

Current use

The site is currently farmland.^[5]

^ "Southrop Relief Landing Ground". Pastscape. Historic England. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
^ "RAF Southrop". Lost Airfields. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
^ "RAF Southrop, Glos". Derelict Places. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
^ "RAF Southrop Defences". Pillbox Study Group. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Southrop". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Archived from the original on 26 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.