Leafield

Type: Subsidiary
On the web: http://www.leafield.co.uk
Employees: 307

Chemring Energetics, formerly Leafield Group Ltd., has energy to burn. The company specializes in pyrotechnics and pyro-mechanical and electro-mechanical devices, rocket motors, gas generators, initiators, and actuators used for military and industrial safety systems, missile guidance, airborne weapons, military training and ceremonies, and demolition. Chemring Energetics, which was formed by the merger of Chemring Group subsidiaries Leafield and Nobel Energetics, supplies governments, defense agencies, and commercial customers worldwide. In addition to its explosive products, the company provides engineering, chemical, and ballistic consulting. Chemring Energetics was formed in 2007; Nobel began in 1871.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending October, 2008:
Sales: $32.3M

Officers:
Managing Director: Mike Helme
Deputy Managing Director: Aerospace & Defense Parts Manufacturing

Competitors:
BAE SYSTEMS
EADS
Northrop Grumman

Coordinates: 51°50′20″N 1°32′42″W / 51.839°N 1.545°W / 51.839; -1.545

Leafield
Leafield  Leafield shown within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SP3115
Parish	Leafield
District	West Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Witney
Postcode district	OX29
Dialling code	01993
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
European Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Witney
Website: Leafield Village Home Page
List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire

Leafield is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Witney in West Oxfordshire.

The village is 635 feet (194 m) above sea level in the Cotswold Hills. It was the highest point in Oxfordshire until the county boundary changes in 1974.

Leafield is in the historic area of the ancient Wychwood forest and on the course of the Wychwood Way, a 37-mile circular walking trail.

Contents 1 History 2 Bibliography 3 External links 4 References

History

Sir George Gilbert Scott designed the Church of England parish church of Saint Michael and All Angels designed in 1859. It was consecrated in 1860 and the bell tower was completed in 1874.^[1] The parish church is now a member of the Forest Edge Benefice.^[2]

Leafield parish includes the hamlet of Langley, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the village. A large radio transmission station was sited here from 1912 until 1986.^[3] British Telecom redeveloped the site as a training college, but then closed the site in 1993.^[4] It was then used by Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) as a motorsport development centre for the Arrows Formula One team,^[5] until the team's demise in 2002. From 2006 to 2008 Leafield Technical Centre was the headquarters of the now-defunct Super Aguri F1 team.

Bibliography

• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 682. ISBN 0 14 071045 0. 

External links

• The Wychwood Magazine Online

References

1. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 682
2. ^ Forest Edge Benefice: Leafield with Wychwood
3. ^ Leafield Village website: The BT Radio Station
4. ^ Leafield Village website: The BT Radio Station
5. ^ Leafield Village website: The BT Radio Station

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