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Watton, Norfolk

Watton / Griston
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AIRFIELD SITE : 611 VGS Sign


AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of RAF Watton Airfield


AIRFIELD SITE : Air Cadet Glider Hangar


AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstanding (Frying Pan Type)


AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstanding (Spectacle Type)


AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Servicing Platform


AIRFIELD SITE : Airfield Lighting


AIRFIELD SITE : Armoury


AIRFIELD SITE : Barrack Block (Type 8/56)


AIRFIELD SITE : Barrack Block (Type 8/84)


AIRFIELD SITE : Barrack Block (Type 8/84)


AIRFIELD SITE : Component Store


AIRFIELD SITE : Electrical Intake Station


AIRFIELD SITE : Gymnasium & Chancel


AIRFIELD SITE : LAA Position

​LOCATED AT : 52.569787, 0.842882
EDOFBID : ​e06383

AIRFIELD SITE : Married Quarters Housing


AIRFIELD SITE : Officers Mess


AIRFIELD SITE : Precision Approach Radar


AIRFIELD SITE : Robins Hangar 01


AIRFIELD SITE : Robins Hangar 02


AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 11/29


AIRFIELD SITE : Runway Caravan Hardstand


AIRFIELD SITE : Shooting-in Butts


AIRFIELD SITE : Small Arms Ammunition Store


AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways


AIRFIELD SITE : Tennis Courts


AIRFIELD SITE : Type FW3/22 (Modified) Pillbox

​LOCATED AT : ​52.571749, 0.860428
EDOFBID : ​e58674

AIRFIELD SITE : UNITER Building


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 01


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 02


AIRFIELD SITE : Wireless Ridge


AIRFIELD SITE (UNKNOWN DISPERSED SITE) : Main Entrance


AIRFIELD SITE (UNKNOWN DISPERSED SITE) : Unknown 01


AIRFIELD SITE (UNKNOWN DISPERSED SITE) : Unknown 02


AIRFIELD SITE (UNKNOWN DISPERSED SITE) : Unknown 03


BOMB STORES SITE : Bomb Stores


BUILDING 50 : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 59 : Machine Gun Range


BUILDING 65 : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 66 : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 77 : Incendiary & Pyrotechnic Store


BUILDING 80A : Unknown


BUILDING 102 : Barrack Block (Type 8/84)


BUILDING 104 : Dining Room


BUILDING 155 : Dog Section


BUILDING 179 : Unknown


BUILDING 318 : Unknown


BUILDING 321a : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 321b : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 321c : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 321d : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 321e : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 321f : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 321g : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 321h : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 321i : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 321j : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 321k : Bomb Store House


BUILDING 322 : Ultra Heavy Fusing Point Building


BUILDING 606 : Unknown


MEMORIAL SITE : ​25th Bomb Group Memorial


MEMORIAL SITE : ​455th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Units Memorial


MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Mary


MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Mary Churchyard

Buried in this Churchyard are: 
Squadron Leader Arthur Henry Allen (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman John Brayfield Ball (Royal Air Force)
Corporal F J Bobby (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Kenneth Hulbert Bottrill (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal William John Burrows (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Lieutenant Edward Ronald Carter (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Alfred Ronald Cheadle (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Norman George Clark (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Daniel Joseph Clarke (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant Harry Ian Forsyth Connelly (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Pilot Officer Nicholas Aitken Cooper (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer O J Dallaway (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Joseph Alban Eckersley (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Arthur Henry Elliot (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Horace Raymond Goddard (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Richard Benson Govett (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Frederic Norman Grant (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant Owen Hall (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Stanley Hammond (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Frank Brown Graham Heron  (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Andre Holmes (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant Richard Herbert Howell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Warrant Officer K Jones (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Douglas James Kirkland (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant D Lennon (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant George Douglas Maluish (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Kenneth George McKenzie (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant Arthur John Norman (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Sergeant Peter Ernest Ritter (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant S Sharpe (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Ian Stapledon (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Morgan 'Mark' George Steele (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant George Edward Step (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Frederick Herbert Harry Taylor (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal S Wallace (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Lewis John Warren (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant Hugh Clarence Whitwell (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant Bottrell Stanley Wilder​ (Royal New Zealand Air Force)

MEMORIAL SITE : Hangar One Memorial Stone


MEMORIAL SITE : ​RAF Watton and Bodney Memorial


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Watton Memorial Garden

HISTORIC RECORD

MEMORIAL SITE : ​Watton Aircrews Memorial


MISCELLANEOUS : Queens Hall

Queens Hall in Watton was built using a large amount of steelwork from a former hangar on the Griston site.

MISCELLANEOUS : RAF 100 Heritage Arts Trail


MISCELLANEOUS : RAF Watton Plaques


MISCELLANEOUS : Stans Walk


MUSEUM SITE : Museum 4 Watton

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