Open for one day - Chorley Airfield.

[shed driver]

Here's a bit of a long shot. Just off Washington Lane in Euxton is the presumed site of Chorley Airfield which was operational for just one day - 29th April 1935.
It's mentioned in the Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust website, with very little detail.
https://abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/chor...

There's nothing I can find on the excellent NLS side by side maps website.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/...
Does anyone have any info?

Washington Hall (currently a Fire Service Training establishment) housed the 100th Bomber Group of the USAAF. The Royal Ordnance Factory at Chorley was also nearby. I wonder if it was used as a temporary landing strip for a visit by a dignitary?

SD.

[shed driver]

A bit of digging and it turns out to be part of Cobham's Flying Circus. Note that Washington Lane was originally German Lane but the name was changed in WW2 so as not to offend the Americans billeted there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cobham

SD.

[hidetheelephants]

Tenuous claim to airfield-hood, Cobham visited once. There's no change in the shape of fields in the vicinity before and after 1935, the largest by some margin is where the football pitch is now, bounded to the north by euxton brook. Even that is only ~500 yards from the southwest to northeast, so wouldn't be much fun for anything larger than a single engine aircraft.

[shed driver]

hidetheelephants said:

Tenuous claim to airfield-hood, Cobham visited once. There's no change in the shape of fields in the vicinity before and after 1935, the largest by some margin is where the football pitch is now, bounded to the north by euxton brook. Even that is only ~500 yards from the southwest to northeast, so wouldn't be much fun for anything larger than a single engine aircraft.

It's just how it was described on the Airfields website. A little digging with a local history group gave me the newspaper cutting.

SD.