RAF Wellingore - Voices in the Battle HQ
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RAF Wellingore - Voices in the Battle HQ

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An airfield first opened here in 1917 as Wellingore Heath a naval landing site for the RNAS which closing at the end of the First World War

Wellingore re-opened in 1935 and was expanded into a full airfield and during winter 1939/40 it was upgraded to an airfield with a grass surface and a concrete peritrack with 8 hangars and was used as a relief landing ground for Cranwell. Later in 1940 it became a satellite fighter airfield to RAF Digby

Wellingore Hall was pressed into service as a mess. Later in the war this was where prisoners of war were held and interrogated, those who had served their usefulness were then transferred to the more open prison camp nearer the airfield.

In 1944, with the war now in France the East Coast fighter airfields were no longer useful and Wellingore was transferred on the 29 April to again be a relief landing ground for nearby RAFC Cranwell.

The airfield closed in 1945

Post-war the station served as a camp for ex-prisoners of war from Germany and the Ukraine and finally reverted to farmland in the 1950s, being handed back to the Overton family. Many of the perimeter pill boxes remain to the east along Ermine Street.

Flying continues from the site at a grass strip at nearby Griffin's Farm
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