Silverstone: the village, RAF station and Circuit

Silverstone

Yardley Gobion History Group

Thursday, 2nd October 2025 at 7.30 pm
Yardley Gobion Village Hall, Chestnut Road, Yardley Gobion NN12 7TW

Speaker: Gerald Lovell.

Silverstone is world famous as “The Home of British Motor Racing” but its past shows a small village which once housed a Benedictine Priory, Royal Hunting Lodge, twenty-two woodyards, a RAF Wellington bomber training station and currently attracts 400,000 spectators the first weekend of July each year to see the British Grand Prix.

Guests £5.00.

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