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Hibee
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Forward Planning
« on: Tuesday 18 August 09 13:03 UTC (UK) »
Due east of Dalkeith, in this map of 1816, I have just spotted a site clearly marked "Airfield".

http://www.nls.uk/maps/joins/607.html

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Re: Forward Planning
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 18 August 09 21:32 UTC (UK) »
Dear Hibee
I've got a couple of Alan Godfrey maps for central Leeds published 1849 -but the town hall is on one of them which wasn't built until 1860.  So an unacknowledged revision - but yours seems exceptional!
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Re: Forward Planning
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 23 August 09 05:28 UTC (UK) »
Not sure when Ballooning started but would around at that time would it have been a place for them to land.

Seems bit small for conventional airfield - unless of course it doesn't actually refer to a place for planes to land but is something else. Can't think what though.

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