Spitfires and Hurricanes Traditional Cache
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A small lock and lock container with room for trackables on what was the old road through Sageston.
There is parking close by, but you may need to watch out for muggles visiting the control tower generally on Sundays. Lorry drivers sometimes park up here for the night. Please use the parking spot do not stop on the main road.
Although the terrain is given as 1 and the surface is mostly tarmac this should allow Wheel chairs to get very close, but help maybe needed at the last.
Carew Cheriton airfield was an airship station in the first world war, and was developed in the 1930s to accept aeroplanes to complement nearby Pembroke Dock's flying boat base. The airfield has a decoy site nearby. In recent years, the airfield has been cleared leaving only a perimeter track, a few stretches of concrete and hangar foundations and a control tower of unusual design. Other survivals include a dome turret training building. The domestic buildings were demolished to make way for the widening of the A477.
In August 1939, Carew Cheriton became the base for part of 217 Squadron flying Avro Ansons for coastal patrol and convoy work. A detachment of Wellingtons arrived in November 1939 but soon returned to East Anglia. The Coastal Command Development Unit was formed at the airfield on 22 November 1940. The unit undertook a variety of trails using Lockheed Hudson, Bristol Beaufort and Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft, and flying boats from Pembroke Dock. The tests included ASV radar development, bomb and depth charge attacks on submarines and surface vessels by night with the aid of parachute lights and later with Leigh Lights. The Coastal Command Development Unit moved to Ballykelly in December 1941.
On 22 October 1941, three Bristol Beaufighters and seven Bristol Blenheims formed a combat unit for patrols over the Irish Sea and to prevent German battleships leaving the port of Brest. The unit also provided escort for BOAC DC-3 service from Lisbon to Chivenor or Whitchurch, and an escort for the Irish mail steamer. The airfield was transferred to the control of Training Command in the spring of 1942. Two units were accommodated to tow targets for the School of Anti-Aircraft Defence at Manorbier and for No4 Armament Practice Group which gave weapons instruction to the crews of the Whitleys, Short Sunderlands and Beaufighters of Coastal Command. A further transfer to Technical Training Command followed with No 4 Radio Direction Finding School arriving on 11 December 1942 to became known as 10 Radio School. The Radio School disbanded on 13 November 1945. The RAF air station finally closed on 24 November 1945.
The Control Tower, was built in the early 1940s following award of the contract to 'Heaps' building firm in 1941. The control tower was built to a local, non-standard, design, to replace the original watch office which stood 50 metres west of the present building. The building is of single storey construction with an observation room on the roof, a bay window in the southern elevation and an earth blast mound surrounding the building for protection. The Carew Cheriton Control Tower Group was formed in the spring of 2000 and have restored the previously ruinous structure to its original condition.
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