Type

Monument

Title / Name

Hullavington Airfield

Summary

A military airbase opened in June 1937.

AIRFIELD; MILITARY AIRFIELD; MILITARY BUILDING; BARRACKS, Second World War to Late 20th Century (1939 to 1993)

Source Detail: English Heritage, 2000

Title: Twentieth-century Military Sites

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI21898

Description: Hullavington airfield was opened on June 6th 1937 as a Flying Training Station. It was selected in 1938 as one of a series of Aircraft Storage Units used for storage of vital reserves destined for the operational front-line. The high quality of overall design, layout and detailing reflects an involvement by the architect A Bulloch, which resulted in all the buildings being faced in Cotswold stone. The aircraft storage has planets of hangars dispersed around the edge of the flying field. The E-Type hangars were built in 1938 and are grass covered. The buildings on Site B comprise the best-preserved group. There are three memorials at Hullavington., commemorating its RAF occupation.

Source Detail: Priddle, R., 2003

Title: Wings Over Wiltshire: An Aeronautical History of Wiltshire

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI22354

Description: Hullavington Aerodrome: ST 915 807. The recent 2003 work by Ron Priddle offers a thorough history of the Royal Air Force airfield from its planning to closure in 1993. It includes a map of the airfield as it stood in 1945 with some of the main buildings and hangars marked, including the five sub sites dispersed around the perimeter intended as sub sites for the Aircraft Storage Unit. There are also reproductions of air photographs. The source contains details of the units using the airfield and of the types of aircraft flown. Priddle notes that now only the main runway is in regular use.

Source Detail: English Heritage, 2000

Title: Thematic Listing Programme: Survey of Military Aviation Sites and Structures

Summary: Desktop assessment Updated May 2003 Source ID: SWI24317

Additional Information: English Heritage

Source Detail: Willis, S. + Holliss, B., 1987

Title: Military Airfields in the British Isles 1939-1945

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI26227

Description: Hullavington, Wilstshire, ST 900 810. Opened 1937 The wartime airfield consisted of three concrete and tarmac runways and a variey of aircraft hangars including type C, Bellman, type E, type L, type D and type B1.

Source Detail: Berryman, D., 2002

Title: Wiltshire Airfields in the Second World War

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI26229

Additional Information: Countryside Books

Source Detail: The Airfield Research Group,

Title: Airfield Review

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI26230

Description: For further details of the units using Hullavington and of the types of aircraft flown, please see the two articles on RAF Hullavington by Denis Corley in the journal "Airfield Review". Corley describes Hullavington as the "showplace for the (RAF) expansion scheme". The later article is concerned with Hullavington's role at the time of the threatened invasion of Britain in 1940.

Source Detail: Slocombe, P., 2008

Title: A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Wiltshire

Summary: Gazetteer Source ID: SWI28692

Additional Information: Association for Industrial Archaeology

Description: RAF station built, as part of the expansion, in 1936-37 with architect-designed classical style buildings and water tower. Land was taken from Bell Farm on the Beaufort estate. Closed as station in 1993 and now used by the army as Buckley Barracks. Hangars include massive Type C hangars and some Type E hangars with their curved roofs camouflaged by turf.

Source Detail: Historic England, Various

Title: National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) Entry

Summary: Data held by the NRHE database. The data is made available and licenced under the Open Government Licence version 3. Source ID: SWI29488

Description: A former military airfield opened in 1937, this key site is now a barracks for the army. It is considered to be so important because it is probably the most representative surviving example of Royal Air Force architecture of the post 1934 "Expansion Period", which was influenced by a concious decision to improve the quality and planning of airfield buildings as a result of advice from the Royal Fine Arts Commission, including incorporation of Neo Georgian and Art Deco styles. The planning of aircraft hangars and the flying field also demonstrates the first move towards the principle of perimeter dispersal of aircraft in order to limit potential damage done by enemy attack. Hullavington's initial major role was as an Aircraft Storage Unit. A large number of buildings of this period are extant at Hullavington (please see ST 98 SE 22 to ST 98 SW 36 for further details). During World War Two the main role of the airfield was as in training, particularly the Empire Central Flying School, set up in 1942, which provided training for instructors. Training continued to be important in the Post-war period until 1965 when active flying ceased and ground based Royal Air Force units predominated at the base. In 1993 Number 9 Supply Regiment of the Logistics Corps of the British Army took over the site. Part of the airfield remains in use by transport aircraft and army helicopters.

Source Detail: Ordnance Survey,

Title: Ordnance Survey 1:10000 Map

Summary: Map Source ID: SWI9540