I think we might all be missing something here – the note by the pin says “Lavendon Airfield 1916-1920”.
An airfield of that period, in my limited experience, would have very few fixed amenities, and much of it would be canvas. Runways would have been grass – remember, all sorts of aircraft operated off grass right into and beyond WW2 – and probably quite short.
I can walk you over the site of the one “permanent” building on Port Meadow, (bar the concrete target, which is hundreds of yards from the flying area) and you wouldn’t know it had ever been there. Similarly, the WW1 airfield near Bangor, Gwynedd, is utterly invisible now. Unless, like Rendcombe, you had a few huts surviving, I doubt you’d find much trace at all on the ground. If it existed, It’s not really any wonder at all that it’s hard to find traces of it.
Adrian
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