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English: Folkingham Airfield. Old airport road leading to the modern barn in 600979.
This WWII airfield was open between 1940-1963 and was originally a "decoy" site. During the day there were dummy planes and lots of activity. During the night it was a Q site or night time decoy (with dummy lighting fitted) that successfully attracted the Luftwaffe. It was redeveloped in 1943 as a proper bomber airfield. The station was later turned into Thor missile base in 1959, but finally closed when Thor missiles were taken out of service in 1963. All that remains of this are three sites with a characteristic ground signature on the Folkingham side of the airfield. These are clearly marked on the OS map at 1:25000 in TF0530. |
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| Author | Kate Jewell |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Kate Jewell and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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