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Peterborough Business Airport (ICAO: EGSF) is a privately owned airfield in the English county of Cambridgeshire near the villages of Holme and Conington, 7 NM (13 km; 8.1 mi) south [1] of Peterborough.
With the end of military control, Glatton airfield was largely returned to agriculture. However, parts of two runways have been retained and Glatton now operates as Peterborough Business Airport . The churchyard of All Saints Church in Conington contains a memorial to the men of the 457th Bomb Group who lost their lives on missions that flew ...
Glatton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, [2] some 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Peterborough, near the villages of Conington, Yaxley and Stilton. It lies in the non-metropolitan district of Huntingdonshire, which is part of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county.
The original airfield lay to the south of the one surviving T1 type hangar on the airfield. Little evidence of the original site exists, as the land was returned to farming after the war. Sibson Aerodrome is the only surviving satellite airfield of RAF Peterborough, now Westwood, Cambridgeshire.
During the war, the airfield was bombed five times, with seventeen people being killed on 14 March 1941. Aircraft from the station downed 151 Luftwaffe aeroplanes and 89 V-1 flying bombs . Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney served at the station, as did Andrew Humphrey (later Chief of the Defence Staff from 1976 to 1977, who flew Supermarine ...
Conington (Conington All Saints, or "Conington-juxta-Petriburg") is a village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. [1] Conington lies about 6 miles (10 km) south of Peterborough and 2 miles (3 km) north of Sawtry .
Deeping Gate is a village and civil parish, lying on the River Welland in Cambridgeshire.Traditionally, the area was part of the Soke of Peterborough, geographically considered a part of Northamptonshire; it now falls within the City of Peterborough unitary authority area of Cambridgeshire.
South Cambridgeshire is a local government district of Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 162,119 at the 2021 census. [2] It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Chesterton Rural District and South Cambridgeshire Rural District.