RAF Tatenhill was a medium sized Royal Air Force airfield built, like so many, during the Second World War. It stands about 5 miles west of Burton on Trent at an elevation of 439 feet. It was originally known as RAF Crossplains.
The field was built in 1941 as a satellite for 27 OTU at RAF Lichfield. The design was the wartime RAF standard of three co-intersecting runways, east-west, north-south diagonal. The largest of these (26/08) is orientated in an east-west direction with two cross-runways. It was used as a bomber crew training field, which continued in varied training functions until 1944 with Wellington and Oxford aircraft. Then it was used by The RAF School of Explosives after the disastrous explosion at nearby RAF Fauld, from October 1945 until January 1947.
The airfield had a bomb dump on the south-east side and a number of frying pan dispersals were built on land to the north of the B5234 road, with hangars in this area too.
The airfield remains in use as Tatenhill Airfield.