Airfield Location: R.A.F. Cranage was situated on the B5091 between the towns of Knutsford, Middlewich, Northwich and Holmes Chapel [main gate: 53.226950, -2.412786].

Using the latest aerial photograph, shown below, you can see where the airfield lay in relation to the surrounding countryside and the towns beyond.

The gold pin indicates where the main entrance once stood. As you can see from the image, there are two industrial plants now built on the former airfield. The main living quarters (where the longitude & latitude numbers are) have been cleared and there is now a gas processing plant built there. The other plant produces prefabricated concrete sections for the construction industry and they are on the former sports field on the corner of Kings Lane. The rest of the airfield was returned to the farmers almost immediately after the war.

To see more of this up-to-date map just click on it and you will be taken to the gridreferencefinder.com website.

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Annotated Site Plan: This PDF has been created by scanning and re-drawing the original Air Ministry blueprint which was signed off in February 1945.

The PDF is 1000mm x 800mm size so that you can view it clearly on screen or, if you wish, print a copy.

Click on the image shown below to see a larger version. Use your “back” button to return to this page or ‘right mouse click‘ on the image to download a copy in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

If you don’t have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, or if you want to update your copy then click the link shown below. The software is FREE.

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Fixed 3D Sketch: I have created this PDF, to help visualise the site layout, though it is not 100% accurate for building detail.

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Once again, the PDF is 1000mm x 800mm size so that you can view it clearly on screen or, if you wish, print a copy.

Click on the image shown above to see a larger version. Use your “back” button to return to this page or ‘right mouse click‘ on the image to download a copy in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

If you don’t have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, or if you want to update your copy then click the link shown above the main site plan image.