Larks Barrow
LARKS BARROW: Advanced Landing Ground
Location: Near the A34(T) today, roughly 1.5 to 2nm N to NNW of Whitchurch
NOTES: This site, like a few others, gave me all sorts of problems to resolve considering the nature of this 'Guide' whereby I’ve fundamentally set out to record sites where acts of aviation have been committed. It appears that although set up as an ALG in June 1942 LARKS BARROW was never used?
This was a problem I really had not envisaged from the outset - thinking that if a landing place has been laid out - of course it must have been used? However, I hadn’t then appreciated the enormous waste involved in fighting a major war.
Official records are fickle to say the least and often inaccurate. So, for example, it really is just possible a locally based Army Auster pilot may have landed here to visit his family or relatives or a girlfriend etc, etc. This sort of stuff went on all the time.
On the other hand, if anybody knows better, this advice will be much appreciated.
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