Boreham Airfield

At the end of Bolt Lane, off Waltham Road. Follow the lane to the end and you get to some Essex Police Buildings and security barrier (I think this must have been the old Ford motorsport place). I asked the security guard on duty and he kindly took me up to see the memorial.

From there I went to; Earls Colne, Ridgewell, Sudbury, Lavenham and Rougham! – Photos to be posted soon!

Richard

Well done Richard,

Where abouts was it in the end?

Jamie

Found it!

My Boreham Airfield Webpage

Richard

Good Luck REF !

I`m back that way this afternoon and have another look.

I think I’ve located it. I’m up that way on Saturday so I’ll check it out then.

As Jamie says Ford used to use Boreham to test vehicles on, so I suspect that “BorehamFord” is Ford’s area (or whoever has supplanted them) of operations on the airfield. There’s certainly no parish of Boreham Ford, and a hamlet with that name would probably be closer to the village than the airfield.

Any help?

Adrian

Here are some more photos of the memorial that I’m trying to locate at Boreham.

This page refers to BorehamFord, any ideas where that is in relation to Boreham in Essex?

Hi Phil,

thanks for the reply but I think the one your map points to is the one I have already seen! I was looking for the other one as per my first post!!

Richard

Richard
The memorial is located at:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=574070&y=212795&z=3&sv=574070,212795&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
Hope this helps

Phil

Thanks for looking Jamie, I’ll go and have another look next time I’m passing, it is bugging me as to where it is!!

Richard

Popped into Boreham this morning on my way back from STN, and i cant see that memorial anywhere in the accessable areas. I have to say thats the first time i have been to Boreham in a number of years, and with the EP Air Support unit there, security is very tight, certainly more so than when Fords used it to develop new and “secret” desined cars.

There is another access road round the other side of the airfield, where the Police Staff car park is, and a security gate, my guess is that its probably the other side of the gate, and within the complex somewhere.

Unless anyone else knows different of course :rolleyes:

Jamie

Hi Jamie

I was going by the info on this site which is where the picture in the link above is.

I was just curious as I had a look at the EAAGA Memorial at Boreham yesterday, my photos are here.

Richard

Hi REF,

This is the only one i have seen at Boreham.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/104080

Is the rock one definatly Boreham?