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Langham Lane, COLCHESTER, CO4 5HX

MOD Boundary Marker southeast of Langham Lane, at the entrance to Boxted Airfield Museum, on the former Boxted airfield. Langham parish. While the airfield was used from 1943 to 1947, the Royal Observer Corps post was used from 1961 to 1991 and the marker will date after 1964. Reference https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/langham-roc-post/. Milestone Society National ID: EX_MODLAN01em

This shows what appears to be part of a dispersal and the remains of the perimeter track of the former Boxted airfield in the parish of Langham north of Colchester. Using the normal naming convention this would have been Langham Airfield but there was already an RAF station of that name in Norfolk. The station was operational from May 1943 until November 1947. Various USAAF fighter and bomber groups operated from here. When the field was finally stood down the RAF fighter command were operating Meteor jets from the base. You can see the remains of the main runway at Image, there is a memorial at Image To go to the next field in an alphabetical tour of Essex WW2 airfields click on Image Much information was gleaned from Graham Smith’s book “Essex Airfields In The Second World War”. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Essex_Airfields_in_the_Second_World_War.html?id=u3atAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y