# Great Ashfield Airstrip, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom

**Great Ashfield Airstrip** is a small airport in Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. It opened in 1942. It is operated by Royal Air Force.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0301

## At a glance

- Type: Small airport
- Operator: Royal Air Force
- Serves: Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
- Opened: 1942
- Elevation: 68 m / 223 ft
- Coordinates: 52.2561, 0.9328
- Time zone: UTC+0/+1 · Europe/London
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Great_Ashfield (2 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7275347
- Weather station: EGXH
- Ident: GB-0301

## Timeline

- 1942: Great Ashfield Airstrip opens.

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elevation | 68 m / 223 ft | =33,321 of 43,403 | =4,211 in Europe | =314 in GB |
| Age | Opened 1942 | =1,791 of 15,079 | =619 in Europe | =122 in GB |

## Nearby airports

- [GB-0809](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0809.md) Little Haugh Hall Private Airfield · 5.6 km / 3.5 mi
- [GB-0859](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0859.md) Hinderclay Meadows Airfield · 10 km / 6.4 mi
- [GB-0492](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0492.md) Rattlesden Airfield · 11 km / 6.7 mi
- [GB-0452](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0452.md) Mendlesham Airstrip · 13 km / 8.3 mi
- [GB-0606](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0606.md) Wortham Airstrip · 13 km / 8.3 mi
- [GB-0710](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0710.md) Knettishall Airstrip · 14 km / 8.5 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0301/data