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Silverstone pre airfield history
I got thinking today about the names of the corners at Silverstone in particular Chapel, Abbey, Priory, Luffield, now a bit of digging and looking at 1850 and 1885 maps shows some interesting text.
The BRDC Farm (then known as Luffield Farm) is the site of the slightly mysterious Luffield Abbey, long gone by 1850, about 1km - 1.5km away to the east lies another interesting site Chapel Green which I think is somewhere under Maggotts, Becketts and the start of the hangar straight and unsuprisingly Chapel! This Chapel is marked on the map as the former Chapel of St. Thomas a Becket but under some newer farm building it does however say that there are chapel remains. For those of you who don't have Cambridge English lit dons as godparents heres some info on Becket http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket Now the map lists the area of Becketts as Becket's Moor obviously after Tommy boy. So I ask these two questions should Becketts really be spelt Becket's? or even called Beckets Moor? (or saints corner?) also is there anything remaining of the chapel? And if you really want to know more about Becket - BBC2 at 22.45 (ie in few minutes) Last edited by ss_collins; 18 Aug 2007 at 21:32. |
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oops its Maggot's Moor and Becket's chapel.
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It is Becket (one T - as I was always taught?)
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Your full of random nonsence Sam...but this is quite interesting.
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Yep, interesting stuff Sam
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hmmm time to get Silverstone to change it I think
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Next time I'm round there I'll cross out the extra T on all of the signs
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Slightly off topic, but I have a copy of a circa 1945 Airfield Plan (declassified MOD !)
Makes some interesting viewing - The main Camp area was actually over the Dadford Road from the airfield part (or Circuit as it is today) Spread as far as the other side of the A43 as it is now - including the Medical quarters and Mortuary |
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I've also got a plan of Snetterton (Heath) as it was known I believe they are published by "After the Battle" magazine - should be able to find some info on the Web |
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The Silverstone website has this information on there and more. More about the corners, but not the history, here http://www.silverstone.co.uk/php/hi_corners.php
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Relevant but slightly off topic is the fact the Thomas Becket is not spelled with an a ! Apparently that was a sort of typo of the day! Some scribe got it wrong and it stuck!
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But is his name spelt with one t or two?!
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I'd love to see the 1945 map.
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