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Dist:0.4km<br/>The woodland beyond is Broughton Gorse.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.7km<br/>We are a landlocked County,this is part of a wartime airfield so what better subject than a boat, we take flooding seriously here in Shropshire
©Chris Wood
Dist:0.7km<br/>A country lane in deepest darkest North Shropshire with the obligatory pile of builder's waste in the foreground in an attempt to prevent vehicular traffic.
©Chris Wood
Dist:0.8km<br/>
©Row17
Dist:0.8km<br/>This shows the original wartime roadway leading to structures from that period, all now being put to good use for agricultural purposes
©Chris Wood
Dist:1.0km east<br/>
©Row17
Dist:1.1km northeast<br/>
©Row17
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>
©Row17
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>
©Row17
Dist:1.3km south<br/>
©Row17
Dist:1.4km west<br/>This shows the unused bit of Runway 36 the X indicates part of a runway that cannot be used for take off or landing. Sleap is situated within RAF Shawbury's Military Air Traffic Control Zone (MATZ) It was a WW2 airfield and is still in use by Shropshire Aero Club.
©John Chorley
Dist:1.4km south<br/>
©Row17
Dist:1.5km northwest<br/>Old wooden buildings now house the Sleap Aviation Museum and provide a home for the Wartime Aircraft REcovery Group.
©Mike White
Dist:1.5km northwest<br/>Fuel only for light aircraft dispensed here.
©Mike White
Dist:1.5km northwest<br/>Some of the airfield has been quarried, but generally most of it is still in regular use although as someone who lands there regularly, the runways and taxiways could do with resurfacing!
©John Chorley

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