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#RAFLincolnshire
Updated: 6 Dec 12
Opened: <=Aug 1942
Closed: >= Aug 1942
Airfield decoyed: RAF Elsham Wolds
English Heritage Site Reference: Q103B
Approximate location of site centre: BNG TA000203 (Streetmap)
Pastscape record: 1465719
The South Ferriby Q site was a Second World War night-time bombing decoy that was built to deflect enemy bombing from RAF Elsham Wolds. It is referenced as being in use in August 1942. By 1971 the site had been given over to agricultural use and no features of the decoy survive. RAF Elsham Wolds was also protected by a Q site at Great Limber.
Q-sites operated at night and tried to lure the enemy with sets of lights arranged to look like a real operational airfield, set out over up to a mile and a half of countryside. Q sites generally had a night-time staff of two who would check lighting before dusk and await nightfall in a shelter. See further reading on dummy and decoy sites.
RAF Elsham Wolds on ControlTowers.co.uk
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