Who owns Goxhill airfield???

Goxhill airfield

Odd how a simple web search turns up some old experiences of that area.

The track mentioned was still in occasional use to service the oil terminal based alongside the former Royal Navy Seaplane base that had been there during the war, the original naval tank farm can still be seen and I belive is still used.

The rails were still in place for some considerable distance beyond this point out towards the airfield at ‘SouthEnd’ were I was told there had once been a ‘Halt’ to allow service personell access via rail to the base though I was never able to confirm this.

On occasions Drivers including myself would take illicit excursions down the old line beyond the terminal as far as the Chapel field road crossing, this had long since been removed and from that point on only the track bed remained out to were it joined the Ulceby to New Holland line, sadly this is no longer possible with the line becoming seriously overgrown and erroded

As for the airfield, The runways look to have been lotally grubbed up for hardcore leaving only a few of the dispersal pans and the hangar areas intact unlike South Killingholme which apart from buildings has remained almost complete.

Long after moving away from the area I did hear rumour that a recovery operation had been made in the area of the railway embankment adjacent to the airfield but have not looked into this.

In all the area has a long history related to aviation sad to see so much of it idly discarded.

Did Goxhill have a grass runway ??
and there is the remains/passage of a small railway track that (i presume) ran into the village ??
and of course the memorial to the side of the airfield

A view on Google earth quite clearly shows the remains of 3 hard runways, with some of the dispersals now outside the main aerodrome enclosure.

Kind Regards.

Scotty

Did Goxhill have a grass runway ??
and there is the remains/passage of a small railway track that (i presume) ran into the village ??
and of course the memorial to the side of the airfield

Wikipedia mentions that too…. and has a lovely 1946 ariel shot too:

Wikipedia

Compare that with Google view and it does look good!
Google

Maybe this could be of any help…
http://www.northlincs.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/603702D4-71C7-4E9C-A7DE-13D94C29D826/30279/GoxhillAirfield2.pdf

Wasn’t Goxhill once described as one of if not the best preserved 8th AF airfields left in existence?

Goxhill

Was up there a few weeks ago. Bloke walking his snarling mutt told me it was owned by a local farmer called “Faulding.” Hope that’s of some use. Took a photo while I was up there.