Lopcombe Corner

[broadtown]

Looking at Lopcombe Corner, I was wondering if anyone knew what buildings were there? Was it the usual 2,2,1,2 hangar arrangement with the same workshop etc structures as Old Sarum/Boscombe etc?

Also when did it close and what was the function?

OK as compensation a photo of the Horsea Mere power house.

[mickdavis]

LOPCOMBE CORNER 4 miles from Grately railway station and 5 miles from Stockbridge railway station

167/184 : (41) SU 274354 : Hampshire : 228 acres : 1250 x 850 yards : 270 feet amsl.

Training Depot Station RFC/RAF 9.1917 – 10.1918 : Relinquishment confirmed 22.1.1920

Seven 1917 pattern GS Sheds, 170 x 100 feet) as three coupled units with a single for an ARS

3 Training Depot Station A Flt nucleus 5.9.1917 from Harlaxton : 5.9.1917 formed parent unit

3 Training Depot Station B Flt nucleus 5.9.1917 Yatesbury : 5.9.1917 formed parent unit

3 Training Depot Station C Flt nucleus 5.9.1917 Dover (Swingate Down) : 5.9.1917 formed parent unit

3 Training Depot Station 5.9.1917 formed from nucleus flights : 15.5.1919 re-designated 3 Training Squadron

157 Sqn A Flt nucleus* 7.1918 formed with HQ at Chattis Hill : 15.7.1918 Upper Heyford

74 Sqn cadre* 10.2.1919 Halluin (F) : 3.7.1919 disbanded

85 Sqn cadre* 16.2.1919 Ascq (F) : 3.7.1919 disbanded

91 Sqn 7.3.1919 Kenley Common : 3.7.1919 disbanded

3 Training Squadron 15.5.1919 formed ex 3 TDS : 20.6.1919 disbanded

52 Sqn cadre* 28.6.1919 Netheravon : 23.10.1919 disbanded

34th Wing, 8 (Training) Group, SW Area 1918

[Moonraker]

LOPCOMBE CORNER 4 miles from Grately railway station and 5 miles from Stockbridge railway station

167/184 : (41) SU 274354 : Hampshire : 228 acres : 1250 x 850 yards : 270 feet amsl.

Training Depot Station RFC/RAF 9.1917 – 10.1918 : Relinquishment confirmed 22.1.1920

Seven 1917 pattern GS Sheds, 170 x 100 feet) as three coupled units with a single for an ARS

Known locally as Jack's Bush, which is in Hampshire. Lopcombe Corner itself is in in Wiltshire, There were six hangars for aircraft and two (hangars?) for stores, an aircraft repair shed and two motor transport enclosures covering 29 acres (which information complements Mick's). It was a very dusty airfield. A few small sheds still stood when last I was there c1998.

Moonraker