Your nearest airfield?

I think that Langham airfield is now known as Boxted to avoid confusion with another Langham? Please correct me if I am wrong.

Southend wrote:

Some of the many wartime airfields near to me from both World Wars. 'As the crow flies' these are the nearest.

RFC/RAF Rochford (Southend) 1.5 miles, nearest and still in use as Southend Airport
RFC Stow Maries 9 miles.
RFC Goldhangar 13 miles.
RAF Bradwell Bay 16 miles.
USAAF Boreham 17 miles.
RFC Suttons Farm/RAF Hornchurch 20 miles.

I'm not too far from you then. I used to live right in the middle of Bradwell Bay & Stow Maries. I'm in Basildon now

I regard myself as being very lucky, Matlaske airfield is literally just around the corner from me, and I pass it very frequently. Living in Aldborough I am well situated between several airfields.
My work covers most of East Anglia, so I am never too far from an airfield, this is a real bonus as I am interested in anything to do with WW2 or the cold war and will record anything from radar stations, gun batteries, pillboxes and Roc posts etc.

My nearest would be Cricklewood except that there's not a single thing to remind you......

Keeping it operational:

Brize Norton - 6.5 miles, or half a mile from extended centreline.
Oxford/Kidlington or Oxford London Airport. 10 miles.
Benson - 25 miles.

Non Operational, all within 25nms of my home address:
Witney
Chipping Norton
Broadwell
Burford
Stanton Harcourt
Kingston Bagpuize
Akeman Street
Oaklands
Starveall Farm
Stanton St John
Cowley
Culham
Grove
East Hanney
Bush Barn
Shellingford
Kelmscot

Source if anybody raises the question:

www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airf...nal/Oxfordshire.html

I did not realise there was so many, even during my RAF career as an Air Trafficker, shame on me!

Living in Amesbury most of what is near me is of historical importance,
I live 135 metres from Boscombe Down,
4 miles from the site of the first aerodrome in England at Larkhill,
2.3 miles from the still surviving hangars also in Larkhill,
3.35 miles from Stonehenge aerodrome built in 1917 and closed in 1921,
3.75 miles from the first fatal aeroplane accident on Salisbury Plain in 1912 and
9.3 miles from Upavon, the home of the RAF.

Kent International (RAF Manston) 0.5 miles
Ramsgate airport (now an industrial site) 2 miles
The remnants of the old RFC Station at Bekesbourne is about 15 mile away, have a photo somewhere of the Dragons Teeth!

For me living in South Queensferry, we are surrounded in a way by long gone and also current airfields/airports : Grangemouth, Turnhouse, Kirknewton, Macmerry, Drem, East Fortune, Lennoxlove and across the water so to speak we have the former RNAS Donibristle and RNAS Crail before it gets too far and then it's dear old Leuchars ( my old haunt and soon to be re-haunt! )

I'm lucky enough to live at the end of Ridgewell's hardstand 11. In fact, each morning I walk my dog around what was the site of a T2 that hosted Bing Crosby in September 1944. The place, or what's left of it, never ceases to amaze me. It is hallowed ground.

My closest are (not necessarily in correct order):

Chailey ALG
Deanland ALG

Slightly further afield:

Tidemills/Newhaven (WW1 RNAS/Marine)
Wilmington
Friston ALG
Shoreham
Coolham ALG

A number of BoB/WW2 casualties force landed in the locality, including a Bf109 which seems to have ended up within yards of where my house now stands (so far as I can tell by comparing photos with the current landscape), and a Hurricane on the local racecourse.

Paul F