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General
Halton’s largest claim to fame is probably the Royal Air Force base which is used to train the personnel for the Air Force of tomorrow and has done so for over eighty years. One of the buildings the RAF occupies is Halton House built by Baron Alfred de Rothschild in 1841.
The area has a long history with an Iron Age hill fort on Boddington Hill. The name derives from the Old English healh-tun and means ‘a farmstead in a corner of land’. The name has hardly changed since the time of the Domesday Book when it was recorded as Haltone.
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Halton Camp
In the late 1960s a member of the WRAF was stationed at Halton. At that time the large base was divided into two sections, the main camp and a separate hospital. The base also had some three storey housing blocks. One WRAF member was living on the second floor of one block in what was a long and narrow room. One afternoon she was trying to get to sleep and was facing the wall against which her bed was placed. As she lay there she heard the door open and footsteps come towards her and then she felt as if someone was leaning over her as if looking to see if she was asleep. Not feeling in the mood for being disturbed she lay still and gave no sign that she was awake whilst waiting for them to leave. As she lay there she decided she should really see what they wanted and turned round, but there was no one there and she had not heard them leave.
In another incidence a different member of the WRAF was walking from the hospital to the housing blocks in the main part of the camp. When she was half way along the narrow path she thought she heard something but couldn’t see anything. Over the next few minutes this happened several times as she walked along the path. Finally she looked around just as the sound was being made only to see a tall dark mass following her. At that point she ran as fast as she could without looking back. Prior to this incident there had been rumours of a strange dark shape that had been seen many times in the area.
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