Newtown Park, airstrip
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Newtown Park, airstrip
Image: © Mike Faherty Taken: 5 Jul 2009
Off Shotts Lane, on the Solent Way. According to an information board, the site of Lymington Airfield, home to the American 50th Fighter Group, flying sorties to France before D-Day; restored to farmland in 1946, and now an airstrip for nearby Newton Park Estate.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.765016
Longitude
-1.516292