Haroldston airfield consisted of two fields between which the hedge had been removed to make a grass airstrip. Nearby Tong Cottage was requisitioned as a base for the 2-3 airmen who were assigned there on permanent duty to deal with emergency landings and to guard the facility.

Event and Historical Information:
Haroldston was opened as a Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for RAF Withybush in February 1942. Sources suggest that there are no official records of any emergency landings, although local people remember a small biplane landing in the summer of 1942. The airstrip was closed in 1943 and the cottage returned to its owner in 1944.

Sources include:
Defence of Britain Project
Jones, I, 2007, Airfields and Landing Grounds of Wales: West, pg148-9
Phillips, Alan, 2006, Military Airfields Wales, pg85

RCAHMW, May 2008.