RAF New Romney

RAF New Romney
RAF Honeychild^[1]
RAF New Romney; RAF Honeychild
New Romney, Kent in England
	RAF New Romney airfield, 1943
	RAF New Romney Shown within Kent
Coordinates	51°00′09″N 000°56′39″E / 51.00250°N 0.94417°E
Type	Advanced Landing Ground
Code	XR
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Fighter Command; * No. 83 Group RAF
Site history
Built	1942/43
Built by	RAF Airfield Construction Service
In use	March 1943 – December 1944
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation	3 metres (10 ft) AMSL
Runways
00/00	Sommerfeld tracking
00/00	Sommerfeld tracking

Royal Air Force New Romney or more simply RAF New Romney is a former Royal Air Force Advanced Landing Ground located 3.9 miles (6.3 km) north east of Lydd, Kent, England.

History

RAF Romney Marsh was also known as Jesson or Littlestone Aerodrome, and was situated to the north of New Romney.^{[nb 1]}^[3]

No. 124 Airfield RAF^[1]
No. 181 Squadron RAF flying Hawker Typhoon IB's from 3 July 1943 until 8 October 1943^[4]
No. 182 Squadron RAF flying Hawker Typhoon IB's from 2 July 1943 until 12 October 1943 with a detachment at RAF Wigtown^[5]
No. 247 Squadron RAF flying Hawker Typhoon IB's firstly from 10 July 1943 until 7 August 1943 then again from 13 August 1943 until 11 October 1943^[6]
No. 3207 Servicing Commando^[1]
No. 3209 Servicing Commando^[1]

The site is now used for farming and little remains of the landing ground.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "New Romney II". Airfields of Britain Conversation Trust. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
^ ^a ^b Falconer 2012, p. 148.
^ "New Romney I (Littlestone)". abct.org.uk. Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^ Jefford 1988, p. 65.
^ Jefford 1988, p. 66.
^ Jefford 1988, p. 77.

Falconer, J. (2012). RAF Airfields of World War 2. UK: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-349-5.
Jefford, C.G. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive Record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988. ISBN 1-84037-141-2.