the alternative

[C]

In the end its just a guess as, like i said, the layout from the angle we were at looked alot like an old airbase. I couldn't find anything on it either. And perhaps there were plans at one point to build one there building started but was later aborted. It would certainly be an interesting place to put an airfield with the hills being around 3000 feet next to it.

Yep, you're right, it did look suspiciously like an airfield. As to the merits of building it next to a hill?

[Craig.]

Hmmm. I came up with Defford but it's an old Radar Research station apparently surrounded with "golf balls". Any of them out of shot?

http://www.doramusic.com/deffordairfield.htm

It could be that. the rail line you can just see in your link to the left is in the same position as the rail line in charlies multimap link.

[Craig.]

And thank you both for the help.

[C]

On a high res photo you would possibly see Defford. It is about 7 miles east and on the far (east) side of the M5. Not too much left of it though...