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RAF Elvington
RAF Elvington était une base aérienne de la Royal Air Force, active du début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale jusqu’à 1992. Elle est située près de la ville d’Elvington dans le Yorkshire en Angleterre.
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RAF Elvington
Royal Air Force Elvington or more simply RAF Elvington is a former Royal Air Force satellite station which operated from the beginning of the Second World War until 1992 located at Elvington, Yorkshire, England. It is now the location of the Yorkshire Air Museum.
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Yorkshire Air Museum
The Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial is an aviation museum in Elvington, York, England, on the site of the former RAF Elvington airfield, a Second World War RAF Bomber Command station. The museum was founded, and first opened to the public, in the mid 1980s.
The museum is one of the largest independent air museums in Britain. It is also the only Allied Air Forces Memorial in Europe. The museum is an accredited museum under Arts Council accreditation scheme. It is a member of Friends of the Few (Battle of Britain Memorial), the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Museums Association and the Association of Independent Museums.
The museum is a registered charity (No. 516766) dedicated to the history of aviation and was also set up as a memorial to all allied air forces personnel, particularly those who served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
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Elvington (DVLR) railway station
Elvington railway station served the village of Elvington, North Yorkshire, England from 1913 to 1972 on the Derwent Valley Light Railway.
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York Maze
York Maze is a maze constructed from maize located off the B1228 road near Elvington in England.
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Escrick Rural District
Escrick was a rural district in the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1935.
It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of the York Rural Sanitary District which was in the East Riding.
It was abolished in 1935 under a County Review Order. Most of it went to form part of the new Derwent Rural District, with a small part becoming part of Pocklington Rural District.