Airfields that never were

I have a detailed plan of an Expansion Period station to be built near Colchester. I went to the site in the early 1980s, nothing built and the farmer remembered the AMWD engineers arriving to carry out their initial survey but heard no more from them. I guess it was one of the proposed letter coded sites that one reads about in the National Archives and which one gets very frustrated with as the exact place names are never given - only as Station X, Y or Z etc. Cant remember the exact location as its buried amongst several hundred plans that need sorting.

There is a lot in the TNA on this subject and it makes interesting reading, mainly concerning the mini-exp period of the late 1920s and early 30s, then the various schemes of the exp period proper. Paul Doyle huh, yes I remember him, one of the first ARG members, appalling sense of humour, mainly interested in aircraft with noses that open to allow cars toi enter. Last heard of in Royston, driving a Chipmunk!

I found these two aerials on Footnote.com and they are labelled as Airfields. One is call Ashton and the other Ellington. Both are dated 1943.





Now I am usually pretty good at spotting possibly landing sites but these stump me.
Are these intended airfields or maybe just Cub strip. Any ideas? The names are not familiar to me. Ashton has some white blobs joined by a track are they decoy sites?

Peter

Boozefighters wrote:

I am sure I read about another planned airfield which was to be built somewhere near Cluntoe (Arboe) in Northern Ireland.

That would be Kell's Point - see the first post in the Scotland Northern Ireland section.