About Dunmow
Dunmow, Great Dunmow and it's near neighbour, Little Dunmow are small market towns close to Stansted Airport and the M11 in rural Essex. The town is situated on a Roman road and is thought to have been the site of a Roman station. Today, Great Dunmow is home to around 9000 people and is popular with commuters, due to its mix of rural charm and good transport connections to London.
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The three towns were formerly a centre of the woollen trade and thrived during the Middle Ages. Many buildings survive from this period, including a sixteenth century town hall. Today the town is a traditional market town with shopping in the High Street. Little Dunmow is a village about three miles from Great Dunmow. The Flitch Way, a country park along the route of the old Braintree to Bishop's Stortford railway, links the old and new villages of Little Dunmow.
Dunmow is well known for the Flitch Trials, actually started in Little Dunmow around 1120, and held every four years. Married couples must convince a jury of six local bachelors and six local maidens that they have never wished themselves un-wed for a year and a day. The successful couple are paraded through the High Street and receive a flitch of bacon. Other local attractions include Easton Lodge Gardens, restored 1902 Italian gardens, with a small museum and exhibition, Little Easton Manor, on Park Road, and Great Dunmow Maltings, originally used to produce malt and now housing Little Dunmows museum.
Great Dunmow was designed as a class A bomber airfield, built by the US Army 818th Engineer Battalion (Aviation) with specialised work by British contractors. The airfield was built on ancient parkland belonging to Easton Lodge and some 10,000 trees were destroyed to enable its construction, including over 200 mature oak trees.
The ground support station was constructed largely of Nissen Huts of various sizes. The support station was where the group and ground station commanders and squadron headquarters and orderly rooms were located. Also on the ground station were where the mess facilities; chapel; hospital; mission briefing and debriefing; armoury and bombsite storage; life support; parachute rigging; supply warehouses; station and airfield security; motor pool and the other ground support functions necessary to support the air operations of the group. These facilities were all connected by a network of single path support roads.
Great Dunmow airfield was one of 15 airfields in Essex that was allocated to the United States Army Air Forces by the Air Ministry in 1942. It was opened on 1 July 1943 and was used by the United States Army Air Force Eight and Ninth Air Forces.
