Source: Ordnance Survey Open Names. Licence: Open Government Licence. Source: Ordnance Survey County Boundaries. Location of Brize Norton within Oxfordshire. Location of Brize Norton within OX Brize Norton is 1 mile east of Carterton. Brize Norton is 4 miles west of Witney.
Brize Norton is 4 miles south-east of Burford. Brize Norton is 7 miles north-east of Lechlade-on-Thames. Brize Norton is 7 miles north of Faringdon. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Nortone. The name changed several times over the ensuing centuries until it became established as Brize Norton around the 19th century.
The origins of 'Brize' are obscure. It may refer to the dedication of the parish church to St Britius, though that dedication was not the original one. It may alternately refer to a local magnate known as William le Brun. The parish church of St Britius is a Norman building, enlarged in the 13th century. It boasts a beautifully carved late Norman doorway, while within the church is the memorial effigy of Sir John Daubyngne of Bampton, who died in Most photos are available for licensing, please contact Britain Express image library.
The Vickers VC10 became operational at the base in and its variants were used for refuelling. In , a cantilever-roofed, purpose-built hangar measuring a quarter of a mile was built. Known as Base Hangar, it was used for servicing the VC10 aircraft fleet. In , new equipment and lighting were installed and the runway of the base was resurfaced to meet the standards of category II operations.
Brize Norton became the military emergency diversion airfield for the southern UK with the installation of rotary hydraulic arrestor gear. The programme will also help increase passenger and freight handling capacities at the base.
Major infrastructure renovations include engineering, housing and IT and support facilities. Other works at the base include air terminal roof recovering, base hangar refurbishment works and the construction of an aircraft servicing platform surface water attenuation facility. Babcock, under a subcontract, supplies equipment for construction of infrastructure such as support building, two-bay hangar and associated workshops, training building with simulator and four-floor office accommodation.
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