the water tower - was removed in 2004. At present a minor C road runs along the length of the main 25/07 runway as a right of way. The other two runways are still clearly visible in aerial photography, although the concrete has been removed. The eastern perimeter road is also in use as a C road. The Forestry Commission has established car parks on three dispersal pans and two campsites make use of other former dispersal sites alongside the eastern 33/15 runway. Almost all of the other dispersal hardstands have been removed, although a few survive in a deteriorated condition. There is a small marker along one of the roads as a memorial to the former airfield and an interpretation board at one of the car parks. From 1951 to 1954 the accommodation site at Longbeech was used by New Forest District council to house families waiting for council housing. The site had grocery, doctor's surgery, library, and hall which doubled up as a cinema at the weekends. The site was vacated by 1955. In 1986 RAF Stoney Cross hit the national news when a Hampshire Constabulary led police operation evicted a large group of Peace Convoy travellers from the airfield site. BBC2 recorded the week-long occupation leading to an early-morning eviction in the documentary 'Seven Days At Stoney Cross (1986) The concrete roads in Longbeech still exist but those on the remainder of the airfield that had survived the earlier 'blitz' were removed in the 1990s. See also List of former Royal Air Force stations References Freeman, Roger A. (1994) UK Airfields of the Ninth: Then and Now 1994. After the Battle Freeman, Roger A. (1996) The Ninth Air Force in Colour: UK and the Continent-World War Two. After the Battle Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. . www.controltowers.co.uk RAF Stoney Cross External links Complete listing of RAF/USAAF units at RAF Stoney Cross New Age Travellers - Seven Days At Stoney Cross (BBC 1986) Airfields of the 9th Bombardment Division in the United Kingdom Royal Air Force stations in Hampshire Military installations established in 1942 Military installations closed in 1946 New Forest 1942 establishments in England Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom