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#RAFLincolnshire
> RAF Bases
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Alma Park
Anwick
Bardney
Barkston
Heath
Belton Park
Binbrook
Blankney Hall
Blyton
Boston Wyberton Fen
Bottesford
Bracebridge Heath
Braceby
Buckminster
Bucknall
Caistor
Cockthorne
Coleby Grange
Coningsby
Cranwell
Cuxwold
Digby
Donna Nook
Dunholme Lodge
East Halton
East Kirkby
Elsham Wolds
Faldingworth
Fiskerton
Folkingham
Freiston
Fulbeck
Gosberton
Goxhill
Grantham
Greenland Top
Grimsby
Grimsthorpe Park
Harlaxton
Hemswell
Hibaldstow
Holbeach
Humberston
Immingham
Ingham
Ingoldmels
Kelstern
Killingholme
Kirmington
Kirton in Lindsey
Langtoft
Leadenham
Lincoln West Common
Ludford Magna
Manby
Market Deeping
Market Stainton
Mere
Metheringham
Moorby
Morton Hall
New Holland
Nocton Hall
Normanby
North Coates
North Killingholme
North Witham
Norton Disney
Orby
Rauceby
Saltby
Sandtoft
Scampton
Skegness
Skellingthorpe
Skendleby
South Carlton
South Elkington
South Witham
Spilsby
Spitalgate
Stenigot
Strubby
Sturgate
Sutton Bridge
Swinderby
Swinstead
Theddlethorpe
Tydd St Mary
Waddington
Wainfleet
Waltham (Grimsby)
Wellingore
Wickenby
Wigsley
Winterton
Woodhall Spa
Opened: < Feb 1940
Closed: late 1940
Units based here:
RAF Ingoldmells served as an Emergency Chain Home Low station during 1940. This station on the Chain Home Low network helped provide early warning of Luftwaffe raids on the approaches to Sheffield and Nottingham and the Midlands. It had a Lincolnshire Chain Home High counterpart at Stenigot. As the CHL requirements for height were confirmed the Ingoldmells site was re-sited to Skendleby, approximately 10 miles away, by late 1940.
RAF Neatishead in the Norfolk Broads is host to the RAF Air Defence Radar Museum :: click here.
Ingoldmells is occasionally spelt Ingoldmels.
According to research by members of the Airfield Information Exchange there was also a Home Defence Unit at Ingoldmels monitoring station reporting to Bletchley Park. There were three types of station - DF - Direction Finding, HDU - Home Defence Unit, Int - Intercept. Another 'Y' site operated at Mere Branston, east of Waddington, as an INT/DF site.
Wartime documents lists a 63 Wireless Intercept (WI) Unit station - a Home Defence Unit - at Ingoldmells, under the Northern Command, stating map reference G024884, apparently in the War Office Wartime Cassini reference system.
Although there is a small pleasure airfield at Skegness Ingoldmells (ICAO Code EGNI) this is not an historical military airfield.
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