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Anthorn Airfield, Bowness
Anthorn Airfield
HMS Nuthatch
locality:-   Anthorn
civil parish:-   Bowness (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   airfield (disused) 
coordinates:-   NY180580 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1858
10Km square:-   NY15

hearsay:-  
Opened as a Royal Navy airfield, HMS Nuthatch, 1944; closed to flying about 1960. Now used for a radio station.

Davies, Ken: 2001: Lakeland Aviation and Airfields: Regional Publications (Freshwater, Isle of Wight)

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