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Leavesden Country Park (north) is also the home of Leavesden junior parkrun, a free, weekly, timed 2 km run for 4-14 year olds every Sunday at 9am which is entirely dependent on volunteers. Also, what was based on the old airfield site, now accessed along High Road, Leavesden sits 2F (Watford) Squadron of the Air Training Corps.
Formerly known as Leavesden Film Studios and still colloquially known as Leavesden Studios or simply Leavesden, it is a film and media complex owned by Warner Bros. The studios were all converted from an aircraft factory and airfield called Leavesden Aerodrome , a centre of British aircraft production during World War II .
Leavesden may mean: . Leavesden, Hertfordshire, an area of Watford, Hertfordshire, England; Leavesden Aerodrome, a former airfield in Leavesden, Herts.; Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, a film and media complex owned by Warner Bros. on the site of the former Rolls-Royce factory at Leavesden Aerodrome
In January 2020, Little Staughton Airfield and Industrial Park applied for planning permission to develop the site to re-open the airfield. [6] By December 2021 IAE had constructed a new hangar and re-opened half of the runway. [7] There is also a solar farm and an industrial estate reusing the old airfield buildings.
Leavesden Aerodrome was a British airfield created in 1940 by the de Havilland Aircraft Company & the Air Ministry in the tiny village of Leavesden, between Watford and Abbots Langley, in Hertfordshire. It was an important centre for aircraft production during World War II. By the end of the war Leavesden Airfield was, by volume, the largest ...
In 1934 the company moved to a larger factory and airfield at Hatfield Aerodrome, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Stag Lane Aerodrome was sold for housing development in 1933, though a small 15-acre (61,000 m 2 ) site was retained as a factory and offices for the de Havilland Engine Company Limited .
The north-east section of the airfield is currently the Stratford Oaks Golf club and the south-east section is home to Stratford-Upon-Avon Gliding Club. [8] However, before these were built there was a Wireless Transmission station. [9] At the southern end of the airfield is now Stratford Armouries [10] which is a military museum that was built ...
The central area of the current airfield was first laid down before WW2 as a grass-surfaced landing ground for the nearby Dengie firing ranges off the coast before being rebuilt from 1940 onwards as an enlarged RAF station with concrete runways, hangars and ancillary buildings. [2]