Ask any Brit what the largest airport in the U.K. is, the answer is always going to be Heathrow or Gatwick. This was very nearly not the case, as during the ’60s and ’70s, this quiet corner of Buckinghamshire countryside was threatened with extinction, so the villages fought back. In the 1960s, the government assigned High Court judge Eustace Roskill to look into appropriate locations for London’s third airport. By 1969, the Roskill Report was published, the report concluded that the area surrounding Cublington was the primary location to be chosen for London’s Third…
