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Beside the A46 are the premises of Starkey Hire Ltd Link who deal in vans, 4x4s and commercial vehicles. They occupy what was the Aerodrome Garage, and the pillar seen here, set up in 2019, commemorates the former Leighterton Airfield, of which this was the northern boundary.

"The emerging Australian Flying Corps possessed two airfields, [one] being Leighterton. Nos 7 and 8 (Training) Squadrons arrived at this latter airfield in the second half of February 1918. They flew various aircraft types for over a year until both disbanding in May 1919 and the Australians then quickly leaving. Already two RAF squadrons were in place at Leighterton ... they too departed the following October. ... This once busy airfield like so many others was now fast running down, and it closed in the autumn of that year. By the mid-1920s much of Leighterton had disappeared, yet regular aviation use remained evident for some more years. The Automobile Association listed the site as one of its officially recognised civil landing grounds from February 1933, while the Bristol Gliding Club also used it during 1938-1939 until the outbreak of World War Two stopped all peacetime flying." Link