Upper Rissington Business Park [1]
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Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 4 Sep 2011
Much of the former RAF Little Rissington has become a business park. This view is along A P Ellis Road. The airfield was built in 1937 and soon came to dominate the village and the surrounding area with the residential quarters belonging to it housing nine-tenths of the population of the parish. For many years it was the home of the Central Flying School and is now an active Flying Training aerodrome under No.22 (Training) Group. A fascinating history is at http://www.centralflyingschool.org.uk/History/History3.htm There is a RAF Memorial Window in Little Rissington church and part of the graveyard was reserved for those killed whilst on duty at RAF Little Rissington.