Marden Airfield RAF Marden Pagehurst Emergency Landing Ground | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Private/Military | ||||||||||
| Serves | Marden / Staplehurst | ||||||||||
| Location | Staplehurst, Kent | ||||||||||
| Built | 1917 | ||||||||||
| In use | 1917–1935 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 90 ft / 27 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°10′N 000°31′E / 51.167°N 0.517°E | ||||||||||
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  Marden Airfield Location in Kent | |||||||||||
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Marden Airfield was an airfield in Marden, Kent, United Kingdom. It was operation from 1917 to 1935. Initially a Royal Flying Corps airfield during the First World War it was used post-war as an Emergency Landing Strip, RAF Marden by the Royal Air Force. It was also known as Pagehurst Emergency Landing Ground. Later serving as a civil Emergency Landing Ground, the airfield closed in 1935. The site housed a Royal Air Force transmitter station during the Second World War.