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Benwick

Decoy
County: Cambridgeshire
Current Status: Farmland
Date: 1940 (earliest known date 19 June) - 1944 (last known date 15 July)
Current Use: Disused
Used By: RAF
Decoy Type(s): Q
Decoy Number(s): 35(a), later 185(a)

Benwick initially operated as the decoy airfield for Upwood during World War Two, with parenting switching to Warboys by 18 May 1943. No traces of this place appear to have survived.

 

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 31/12/2015):

  • Benwick Parish Council
Parent(s)/HQ Airfield(s):

UpwoodWarboys

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