Map showing the proximate location Devizes, Wiltshire relative to South-West England.
The Foxton Hall Circuit was a fictional motor racing circuit in England next to the Wiltshire market town of Devizes. The location was previously an airfield operated by the Royal Air Force, until falling into private hands and being re-purposed as a racing circuit. Foxton Hall appears in Anthony Horowitz's 2015 James Bond continuation novel Trigger Mortis.
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If a hall had existed at the site of the racing circuit, it had long since disappeared along with the Foxton family. Their name had subsequently been attached to the airfield that had been constructed on the location in the years leading up to the First World War, and which had served three Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber squadrons during the Second.[1] After being decommissioned, it was purchased by professional racing driver Alan Fairfax; becoming a training school for would-be racing drivers and a meeting place for enthusiasts.[1] After Fairfax was killed while spectating a race at Le Mans in 1955, the circuit passed into the hands of his daughter, Logan.[2] By 1957[3], the legacy of its airfield past remains, with rows of hangars and a low, brick building that might have previously been an officer's mess hall. Around the track, bales of hay and oil drums had been arranged to exaggerate the corners and to provide chicanes.[1] James Bond is sent to Foxton Hall in order to train for an assignment at the notoriously difficult Nürburgring Grand Prix.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Horowitz, Anthony (2015). "Chapter 3: Back to School", Trigger Mortis (in English). Hachette UK, p.41. ISBN 9781409159155.
- ↑ Horowitz, Anthony (2015). "Chapter 4: The Devil's Own", Trigger Mortis (in English). Hachette UK, p.51. ISBN 9781409159155.
- ↑ Horowitz, Anthony (2015). "Chapter 15: Follow the Money", Trigger Mortis (in English). Hachette UK, p.185. ISBN 9781409159155. “[this counterfeit note is] at least seven years old ... Back in 1950 they made a few changes to the design.”