Illington House
ILLINGTON HOUSE: Private airstrip (Aka WRETHAM)
ILLINGTON HOUSE (1)
Note: These five pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
ILLINGTON HOUSE (2)
Note: In November 2022 I was kindly contacted by Mr Mark Taylor who pointed out that after the first site closed, another strip appeared just to the north-west by roughly 500 metres.
The local view is from my Google Earth © derived database and shows the proximity of these two locations.
Location: Just SW of Illington, about 1.5nm SE of Wretham village, roughly 6nm NE of Thetford town centre
Period of operation: ? First site: Early 2000s only, circa 2006?
Second site: According to Google Earth pictures nothing existed here in 2006, so, presumably this strip was laid out at some time after the first site closed?
Runway: (First site) 08/26 610 grass (Second site) 09/27 700 grass
NOTES: It is well known that many farm strips exist for only a short period of time, some less than a year. So, it was nice to be able to feature this one, (ILLINGTON HOUSE (1), especially with an aircraft in view. I suspect that this one lasted for a couple of years or more perhaps? We do not know for certain, but presumably the second site, (with hangar), is operated by the same person/people?
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