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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, 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; Leavesden Hospital, on the outskirts of Abbots Langley, England
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By the end of the war Leavesden Airfield was, by volume, the largest factory in the world. [2] After the war, the aerodrome was purchased outright by de Havilland, who themselves had a succession of owners in the following decades but ultimately they and the site were acquired by Rolls-Royce. However, by the early 1990s, Britain's manufacturing ...
The de Havilland Engine Company was an offshoot of the de Havilland aircraft building company, which started life as the 'Engine Division of the de Havilland Aircraft Company' in 1926 producing the famous de Havilland Gipsy aero-engine. [1]
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.
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The reason for the Mosquito aeroplane is that many squadrons based at the airfield during WW2 had re-equipped with the type. An area of the northern part of the site is occupied by the remains of the Bradwell nuclear power station , the Magnox element of which is currently being decommissioned.