Bovingdon occurs as village in the Chiltern Hills, in Hertfordshire, England, close to a town of Hemel Hempstead.

the village is the places of a previous World War II, Eighth Air Force and post-war Royal Air Force airfield, part of which was utilized to build The Mount prison during the 1980s.

A flying field was built inside 1942. Between 1943 and 1946 it became a B-17 operational step by step videos base for units like a 92nd Bomber Class action, B-17 Combat Crew Replacement Centre (CCRC), 11th CCRC, & Eighth USAAF HQ Squadron. A RAF resumed control until 1951, then a USAF took over again until 1962 flying B-26 Marauders, B-29 Superfortresses, and B-50 Superfortresses. Flight ceased within 1969, though some flying scenes for the film Hanover Street were shot there in 1978. A field served as a defacto airdrome for nearby Hemel when you took virtually all of the postwar time period.

Many films were mass produced on this text including The War Lover, 633 Squadron, Hanover Street, and Mosquito Squadron.

the flying field places however houses a VOR navigational beacon, code BNN. A airspace above a landing field & nearby Chesham is known as a Bovingdon stack and is a holding locality for aircraft approaching Heathrow Airport, 20 miles / Xxx klick in the south. At occupy days in the clear day the twelve planes can be seen circling overhead.

the remainder of the field places is utilized for a regular Sunday market and there is as well the lasting circuit for banger racing. a independent runway & taxi strip, which come then however intact though within a unfortunate state of repair, are likewise occasionally utilized for more cases like the occasional car rally.

Around 1971 the poisoner Graham Frederick Young committed two execution when working for the local electronics company.

A village title is another time confused using Bovington Camp in Dorset. Halfpenny Green Airfield around Shropshire was renamed from Bobbington, a title of the local village, in the period of WWII after the B-17 tried to land there when the crew became misplaced.