Defford

<h2 id="defford-village-hall">Defford Village Hall</h2>
<p>The village hall is owned and run by a charity, the Defford Village Hall Trust, and managed by a committee of trustees .
In 2011 the new village hall was built on a greenfield site some 50 yards to the south west of the old hall, adjacent to the car park.
The hall was designed by a Defford resident and trustee, David Bakefield, who was instrumental in bringing the project to fruition.
It has become the focal point of village life, well used by local clubs and societies.
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<h2 id="defford-airfield">Defford airfield</h2>
<p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/RAF_Defford/KBIRC89c">RAF Defford</a></p>
<p>In 1941 during World War II, a Royal Air Force airfield was constructed mainly  for the flying  experiments for radar that  was being  developed in  nearby  <a href="/facts/Malvern,_Worcestershire/zUIJCb77">Malvern</a>.   For a few months the airfield was used as a satellite station by the <a href="/facts/Vickers_Wellington/LU8KTDm0">Wellington bomber</a> training unit located at  <a href="/facts/QinetiQ_Pershore/6pyDdby9">RAF Pershore</a>.
</p><p>A small grass airstrip remains on the now disused airfield that has been used as a location for telecommunications installations.  The site is now owned and used by the West Mercia Constabulary, but the central part of the  airfield still houses a Satellite Communications facility now operated by <a href="/facts/QinetiQ/0ggdsVGF">QinetiQ</a>.
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<h2 id="village-hall-reconstruction">Village hall reconstruction</h2>

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<ul><li><a href="http://www.defford-croftfarm.co.uk/">Defford air field</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070927010142/http://www.acny.org.uk/venue.php?V=7963">Defford church</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.miac.org.uk/defford.htm">Former rail station</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=2741824">Photos of Defford and surrounding area from Geograph.co.uk</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.merlin.ac.uk/">Merlin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125830/http://81.171.139.151/WAM/doc/Plans%20-%20incl.%20OS%20extracts-695866.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=695866&location=volume2&appid=1001&contentType=application%2Fpdf&pageCount=1">New village hall site plan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100830/http://81.171.139.151/WAM/doc/Plans%20-%20incl.%20OS%20extracts-676959.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=676959&location=volume2&appid=1001&contentType=application%2Fpdf&pageCount=1">New village hall elevations</a></li></ul>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>* 'Parishes: Pershore, St Andrew with Defford and Wick', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4, ed. William Page and J W Willis-Bund (London, 1924), pp. 163–177 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol4/pp163-177 [accessed 30 August 2015] <a href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol4/pp163-177" target="_blank">http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol4/pp163-177</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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