Yorkshire airfields that never were

I know that this thread has been touched on before but has anyone one any idea on if there was any of these in the yorkshire area

thanks rich

Originally started in the Britain At War magazine thread .
See here ; /community/showthread.php?3961-Britain-At-War-Magazine

The January 2011 edition of the magazine carried an article by Dave Smith on the subject which originally appeared in his book 'Britain's Military Airfields 1939-45 , published by PSL in 1989 . Chapter 6 'The airfields that never were' lists five in Yorkshire ; Appleton Wiske near Northallerton , Huggate Wold near Driffield , Litfoss near Beverley , Sinderby near Thirsk and Strensall near York . The book list's 88 'airfields that never were' and is worth adding to your collection .

I knew someone from Bridlington who remembers seeing aircraft flying from a site near Flamborough / Bempton in the later stages of the war. I haven't seen her in 14 years and know not what happened to her. She thought they were American aircraft (not sure if she meant American built or operated).

There was a pre-war flying field at nearby Speeton .

TNA files on Bomber Command expansion and Target Force 'E', c.1942 list the following proposed satellites for Yorkshire (and Durham) airfields

AIR20/2864 AIR14/1113 Another source declared that Strensall and Appleton Wisk near Croft were 'in the pipeline'.
I suspect all these proposals were shelved due to the massive expansion in East Anglia / Northants etc when the USAAF arrived.

strensall. i guess that would be connected to queen elizabeth barracks then,
easingwold would have been intresting too

I wonder where "Tickhill" would have been sited. I can't envisage an area devoid of streams, unless it was Stainton way. Either way, it would have sandwiched Finningley nicely too.

Ossington_2008;67642 wrote:

I wonder where "Tickhill" would have been sited. I can't envisage an area devoid of streams, unless it was Stainton way. Either way, it would have sandwiched Finningley nicely too.

Bircotes airfield just outside Tickhill, below.

www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.433931&lon=-1...&z=15.1&r=0&src="msl "

I always took it that Tickhill was to be an addition to the airfields already in existence, including Bircotes and Worksop. (Bircotes was already in the planning stage by 1940) The reason I mentioned water, was that drainage is present around Stancil and as the Stancil area was used as a bombing decoy, it's position and suitability for expanding into an airfield must have crossed the military mind once the luftwaffe was heavily engaged in Russia and massed home attacks unlikely in future.
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