Downham Market, Norfolk
Downham Market / Bexwell
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1946 Agriculture / Light Industry / Housing N/A N/A e21984 18 April 2025 N/A 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
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)
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.
