RAF Quedgeley was a
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...
station near
Quedgeley
Quedgeley is a town and civil parish in the city of Gloucester district in Gloucestershire, England. A thin strip of land between the Severn and the Gloucester Ship Canal occupies the west, and the south-eastern part of the town is Kingsway Vil ...
,
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire ...
.
History
The site was first occupied in 1914. It closed as an independent RAF unit on 13 February 1995.
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As of 1915 part of the site was the ''No 5 National Filling Factory'' which supplied ammunition during the First World War. At one point 6364 people, mainly women, were employed at the site. The factory produced over 10.5 million 14" and 16" shells, 7 million cartridges and 23 million fuses and other components. The site also included a horse convalescence unit.
The buildings were demolished between 1924 and 1926.
In World War II, '' No. 7 Maintenance Unit, RAF Quedgeley'' was opened on 15 April 1939 as a storage and maintenance site for aircraft equipment and motor vehicles.]
Current use
The site has subsequently been sold and is being developed for housing (Kingsway Village
Kingsway Village is an area adjacent to the town of Quedgeley and suburb of Tuffley in Gloucester, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. It is built upon the old RAF Quedgeley site.
Kingsway is part of Quedgeley, and is in th ...
) and industrial uses.
See also
*List of former Royal Air Force stations
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of ...
References
Citations
External links
History of The RAF in Quedgeley
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Royal Air Force stations in Gloucestershire