Gloster Aircraft Company Shadow Factory (Stoke Orchard)
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Gloster Aircraft Company Shadow Factory. Unit 40. Stoke Orchard.
Flight shed for Hawker Hurricane assembly and Hawker Typhoons; sub-structures of which were fabricated in the adjoining Unit 39; half a mile to the west, in the village itself.
Completed aircraft were then towed across the road to the airfield and flown off to the Hucclecote factory.
Flight shed for Hawker Hurricane assembly and Hawker Typhoons; sub-structures of which were fabricated in the adjoining Unit 39; half a mile to the west, in the village itself.
Completed aircraft were then towed across the road to the airfield and flown off to the Hucclecote factory.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 51°57'10"N 2°6'38"W
- Lower Lode 6 km
- Messier Dowty 7.2 km
- Hasfield Ham 8.9 km
- Imjin Barracks Military Housing Area 9 km
- brockworth albion football club 12 km
- Jack Morgan Farm 15 km
- Highnam Railway Cutting 16 km
- Grounds of Elmore Court 19 km
- Site of the former junction from the main GWR South Wales Railway of the line branching off to Hereford. 23 km
- Hay Wood 24 km
- RAF Stoke Orchard 1.1 km
- Hardwicke 1.8 km
- The Wheatpieces 4.1 km
- Chapel Farm 4.1 km
- Prior's Park 4.7 km
- Tewkesbury Ham 5.7 km
- Northway 5.8 km
- Hasfield 10 km
- Brockeridge Common 11 km
- Longdon Marsh 12 km