HER Record
HER ID: 35247, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough
HER Summary: Airfield
HER Category: Monument
HER Web Link: No link available
Investigation Activities
Type: Research
Description: (1) Descriptions of various research.
Date Range: 1994 - 1994
Type: Bibliographic Reference
Description: Cole's The Story of Aldershot (1951) cites the outer defences of Farnborough Aerodrome as being one of the primary responsibilities of the 27th Home Guard Battalion.
Date Range: 1951 - 1951
Type: Research
Description: (1) Descriptions of various research.
Date Range: 1994 - 1994
Type: Bibliographic Reference
Description: Cole's The Story of Aldershot (1951) cites the outer defences of Farnborough Aerodrome as being one of the primary responsibilities of the 27th Home Guard Battalion.
Date Range: 1951 - 1951
Historic Events
Type: Built
Classification: Military Airfield
Form: Unknown
Description: (1) First buildings on the site were constructed in 1905, when the Balloon Factory was moved from Balloon Square, Aldershot to Farnborough Common. The were several periods of expansion and redevelopment, the last being very recent. Until the Second World War, flying took place using the open land of Farnborough Common as a grass airfield. With the onset of war, the Common was fenced and runways and taxi tracks constructed. In 1994, there were four runways but only three were in use. Also know as the Defence Research Agency. The Royal Engineers formed a balloon equiptment store at Farnborough in 1905. Its operational and trainign units were combined as the balloon school in aprill 1906, the same year seeing the construction of the armys first airship shed at the balloon school's new factory at farnborough (Demolished 1965). In 1910-11 two more airship sheds were erected, (moved to Kingsnorth and demolished c.1930), adjacent to a 'Portable Airship Shed'. The latter, a canvas covered shed comprising in section a parabolic arch made up of rivited box section lattice units, was dismantled and now survives in two halfs, the bottom half in a fabric shop and the upper half in a forge and foundary building.
Date Range: 1905 - 1945
Type: Built
Classification: Wireless Telegraphy Station
Form: No information available
Description: A 'probable' wireless station is listed in a gazetteer of wireless stations in England produced by Oxford Archaeology for Historic England. However, no further details or confirmation is given.
Date Range: 1914 - 1918
Type: Built
Classification: Military Airfield
Form: Unknown
Description: (1) First buildings on the site were constructed in 1905, when the Balloon Factory was moved from Balloon Square, Aldershot to Farnborough Common. The were several periods of expansion and redevelopment, the last being very recent. Until the Second World War, flying took place using the open land of Farnborough Common as a grass airfield. With the onset of war, the Common was fenced and runways and taxi tracks constructed. In 1994, there were four runways but only three were in use. Also know as the Defence Research Agency. The Royal Engineers formed a balloon equiptment store at Farnborough in 1905. Its operational and trainign units were combined as the balloon school in aprill 1906, the same year seeing the construction of the armys first airship shed at the balloon school's new factory at farnborough (Demolished 1965). In 1910-11 two more airship sheds were erected, (moved to Kingsnorth and demolished c.1930), adjacent to a 'Portable Airship Shed'. The latter, a canvas covered shed comprising in section a parabolic arch made up of rivited box section lattice units, was dismantled and now survives in two halfs, the bottom half in a fabric shop and the upper half in a forge and foundary building.
Date Range: 1905 - 1945
Type: Built
Classification: Wireless Telegraphy Station
Form: No information available
Description: A 'probable' wireless station is listed in a gazetteer of wireless stations in England produced by Oxford Archaeology for Historic England. However, no further details or confirmation is given.
Date Range: 1914 - 1918
