Clacton-on-Sea: Clacton Airfield airstrip (1)
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Clacton-on-Sea: Clacton Airfield airstrip (1)
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 28 Oct 2018
Clacton Airfield is a single grass strip, about 600 metres long, orientated virtually due North-South. It is unusual in having a public footpath, once Alton Park Lane, crossing East-West near its middle. This view was taken looking north from that public footpath. For the view in the opposite direction please see Image] In this view the only evidence of it being an airfield is one of the white oblong concrete ground markers that define the edges of the strip. From a Geograph point of view the airstrip is erroneously shown in the grid square TM1614 on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale mapping, and not at all on the 1:25,000 scale mapping. Only at the larger scale Ordnance Survey mapping is it shown in this grid square.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.785827
Longitude
1.130173