RAF Windrush

[3] Some of the original buildings remain in situ though the site has been returned to agricultural use.

[4] The following units were here at some point:[5] A memorial at the church in Windrush village describes Sgt Pilot Bruce Hancock RAFVR who died on 18 August 1940 when downing a German Heinkel bomber by ramming it with his unarmed training Avro Anson aircraft.

[6] Following closure in 1945 the airfield history has not been fully recorded but the then landowner Lord Sherborne purchased the airfield in 1969 back from the MOD and over time either demolished many of the hundred or so RAF buildings, or else established conifer plantations around them seeking to hide them from view.

Many bomb shelters, ancillary buildings and concrete access tracks remain in these plantations.

The National Trust Estate Office is in the nearby village of Sherborne, Gloucestershire.