IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Upottery, HONITON, EX14 9RA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to EX14 9RA by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (9 Images Found)
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Turning for Smeatharp
The brick structure on the traffic island is in use as an unusual war memorial.
Image: © Roger Cornfoot
Taken: 22 Mar 2017
0.01 miles
4
RAF Upottery (Smeatharpe): a tour of a WW2 airfield - Sentry Box Memorial (14)
An original sentry box for the airfield at a road junction by Moonhayes Farm has a Memorial provided by the South West Airfields Heritage Trust (SWAHT) inside. It honours the sacrifice made by men of the USAAF and the US Army who left RAF Upottery for France on the 5th and 7th June 1944 and who never returned.
Image
Image: © Mike Searle
Taken: 7 May 2019
0.02 miles
5
RAF Upottery (Smeatharpe): a tour of a WW2 airfield - Sentry Box Memorial (15)
The inscription inside the box refers to the 5th June 1944 when 81 C-47 unarmed transport aircraft left the airfield at RAF Upottery bound for France. They were carrying 1,357 paratroops who were dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day. Then at dawn on the morning of 7th June 1944, 50 C-47 aircraft towing 30 Horsa and 20 Waco gliders departed for France carrying 968 Glider Infantry troops in the second airborne wave of the D-Day Invasion. It honours these men of the 439th Troop Carrier Group USAAF, the men of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division US Army, and the men of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division US Army. Lest We Forget.
For the full histories of RAF Upottery, Dunkeswell and Culmhead see https://www.southwestairfields.co.uk/
START of Tour: Image
Image: © Mike Searle
Taken: 7 May 2019
0.02 miles
7
Upottery: barns at Moonhayes
With a part-cob wall on the right and extensive use of corrugated iron for roofing. Looking south east
Image: © Martin Bodman
Taken: 2 Jun 2006
0.03 miles
8
Fields at Cockhayes
From the road by the farm seen in Image, looking down the head of the valley also seen in Image, with small woods among the pastures.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 26 Jan 2012
0.13 miles
9
Towards Cockhayes
Looking to the left from the same spot as Image The farm at Cockhayes is in Image, on the same road as the photographer; the road is climbing around the head of the Otter side-valley.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 26 Jan 2012
0.24 miles