Aircraft names and places (Merged with a zombie)

In the local town, Wangen in Allgau, we have Zeppelinstraße and Immelmannstraße.

Zeppelin is understandable as the factory is in Friedrichshafen about fifty kilometres away. However, both streets are in an area with many WWI location names (Pflanderstraße, etc.).

apologies moggy…would u preffer to delete this thread or would you be content keeping it open?

No need, it’s worth seeing if this thread can be expanded.

Moggy

A suburb of Melbourne, Australia – Ashwood has a block of streets named Lancaster, Ventura, Wirraway, Hudson, Anson, Liberator, Beaufort, Catalina, Mitchell, Halifax and Mustang.

I live in Lancaster 🙂

As a confirmed (committed!) Whirlwind nutter I find it highly appropriate that I live in Penrose Court!!

May I refer you all to:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69517

Moggy

apologies moggy…would u preffer to delete this thread or would you be content keeping it open?

Scott

May I refer you all to:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69517

Moggy

there are a massive amount of place names related to aircraft in and around the villages near RAF Benson And Ex Raf Charlgrove

in north weald theres

hurricane way
lancaster road
york road
wellington road
hampden close
merlin way
and a new estate called lysander court or something with lysander in the title

Only type there that opperated from north weald would be the hurricane i believe tho im not too up on North wealds opperational history so correct me if im wrong.

668

Just up the road from Bassingbourn airfield, Cambs there is a Canberra Close and Wellington Place, both types i think were operated from nearby RAF Bassingbourn.!

Aircraft names and places

ok so heres the task…what aircraft or manufacturers have streets or places named after them?

ill start and go for blenheim palace…birthplace of…….

if you can add a reason as to why its called what its called then do (if you know) or if it has a question associated like myne then add

just for a bit of fun 🙂

apologies if this is a duplicate thread

thanks for that 🙂 i never really took the time when i was at school there for two years to have a look round for aviation related road names, though it is odd about harwell considering that it was basically the birthplace of the uk nuclear industry, built on an old raf station. ill ask my dad, he lives not far from there.

There are a couple of references to the Nuclear Research Industry in Didcot….Cockcroft Rd and Rutherford Place

I work for Royal Mail as a postie and my patch is Chilton(about 4-5 miles south of Didcot).Chilton parish(..& my delivery) includes Severn Road which is 1 dozen houses built in the 1960s alongside the southern end of the N-S runway of RAF Harwell….indeed most of RAF Harwell airfield lies in the parish of Chilton and that was the intended name of the station.The Station Commander’s house was just over the border in Harwell parish and he insisted the station be called RAF Harwell

Colin

thanks for that 🙂 i never really took the time when i was at school there for two years to have a look round for aviation related road names, though it is odd about harwell considering that it was basically the birthplace of the uk nuclear industry, built on an old raf station. ill ask my dad, he lives not far from there.

i know there are quite a few aircraft related street names in some of the villages that surround Raf benson,

in reference to the didcot claim, not to forget that on the downs about 15 miles south there were bombing ranges, with Raf harwell to the south west. i figure that some of the street names could have come from aircraft? also im pretty sure that the powerstation that scars the oxfordshire land was built on a MOD site, as well as the army barracks at the west of didcot towards the A34

Didcot does have a few(though the aviation connection may be co-incidental??)

BLENHEIM Close
BEAUFORT Close
WESSEX Road
SANDRINGHAM Road
WINDSOR Close(..& WINDSOR Crescent in nearby East Hagbourne)
VIKING Drive
TRENT Road
DART Drive

In near-by West Hagbourne there’s a YORK Road while North Moreton has a BEAR(as in Tu-95) Lane

Perhaps surprisingly Harwell does not have any aviation related street names

Colin

I work on Hatfield Business park, on the site of the former DH airfield, which has:

Mosquito Way
Gypsy Moth Ave
Dragon Road
Cunningham Ave
The Runway
Nimrod Drive (?)
Fillingham Way
Frobisher Way

In Leavesden, a suburb of Watford where there was a Rolls Royce airfield, there are:

Sterling Way
Blenheim Road
Airfield Way
Royce Grove
Dowding Way
Lysander Way
Whittle Close
Merlin Way
Griffon Way
Westland Close
Comet Close
Trident Road

Shotgate, just up the road from me has,
Blake Hall Drive
Boreham Close
Coltishall Drive
Duxford
Fulmar Way
Honnington Close
Hurricane Close
Hurricane Way
Hornchurch Close
Kenley Close
North Weald Close
Rivenhall
Stapleford End
Wethersfield Way

A small estate adjacent to Barton Aerodrome Manchester contains………
….Avian Close….
Planemike

In the late 1960’s I helped push the fuselage of Northern A.P.S.’s Avian G-EBZM (now on exhibition at Manchester MSI) from their store/workshop (Peel Green?) to Barton to be displayed at an air display there. I took photos of it as we passed Avian Close.

Roger Smith.

Just to the East of Oldham along the A62 there is the district of Austerlands (mind you I would have put that nearer to Rearsby !!!)

There is also an Auster Close in Withington Mancheter 14……….

A small estate adjacent to Barton Aerodrome Manchester contains………

Argosy Drive
Avro Road (on the map shown as Avroe, in the gazateer Avro. Must look next time I am passing to see what is shown on the street sign)
Avian Close
Proctor Way
Trident Road
Vanguard Close

Planemike

A suburb of Dunedin called Waldronville has 7 street names:

Delta Drive
Dakota Place
Canberra Place
Viscount Road
Valiant Road
Vampire Road
and Vulcan Road.

The next road on the way to Dunedin city is called Friendship Drive.

All were intentionally named for Aviation.