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Downham Market, Norfolk

Downham Market / Bexwell
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RAF Downham Market Memorial

AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of RAF Downham Market Airfield


AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardwtand 'W'

This hardstand was dug up between 2016 and 2018.

AIRFIELD SITE : Armoury


AIRFIELD SITE : Armoury Maintenance Unit


AIRFIELD SITE : Battle Headquarters

LOCATED AT : ​52.613662, 0.401468
EDOFBID : ​e31545

AIRFIELD SITE : Contractors Hut


AIRFIELD SITE : Crew Locker & Drying Room


AIRFIELD SITE : Crew Rest, Locker & Drying Room


AIRFIELD SITE : Crew Room


AIRFIELD SITE : Dinghy Shed


AIRFIELD SITE : Flight Equipment Store


AIRFIELD SITE : Free Gunnery Trainer


AIRFIELD SITE : Gas Clothing & Respirator Store


AIRFIELD SITE : Guard Room


AIRFIELD SITE : Gunnery & Signals Training Building


AIRFIELD SITE : Hangar (Site of)


AIRFIELD SITE : Link Trainer Building


AIRFIELD SITE : Main Stores


AIRFIELD SITE : Main Workshop


AIRFIELD SITE : Main Workshop Office


AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 09/27

The last remaining section of the 09/27 runway was dug up between 2016 and 2018.

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways


AIRFIELD SITE : Ultra Heavy Fusing Shed


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown


COMMUNAL SITE : Dining Rooms


MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Mary​

Church of St Mary, Bexwell.

MEMORIAL SITE : Downham Market Cemetery

Buried in this Cemetery are:
​Pilot Officer Haroold James Andrews (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant Peter Anselm Dorman (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer James Clark Greenwood (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Member Evelyn Irene Murrell (Women's Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Walter Thomas Olyott (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Robert Sadler (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Watson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Stanley Wharton​ (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)

MEMORIAL SITE : Downham Market War Memorial


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Downham Market Victoria Cross Memorial


MEMORIAL SITE : Road Names

Lancaster Crescent and Stirling Close on the Retreat Estate are named after the Lancaster and Stirling aircraft based at RAF Downham Market.  While the sign for Lancaster Crescent is visible on streetview, it was missing when I visited in April 2025.

MISCELLANEOUS : RAF 100 Heritage Arts Trail


MISCELLANEOUS : The Rectory, Bexwell

During the Second World War, airmen from RAF Downham Market were billeted in buildings around Bexwell.  The Officers accomodation was in the Rectory, located next to Bexwell Church which is now a private residence.  Throughout the war the Church of St. Mary was used by the airmen from RAF Downham Market as a place of worship and also to provide a place of solace and calm throughout the difficult war years.
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