RAF Kelstern

RAF Kelstern occupied high ground on the Lincolnshire Wolds south-east of Binbrook, on a site first used as a landing ground in the First World War. Reopened in 1943 as a Bomber Command station in No. 1 Group, it was home to No. 625 Squadron, which flew Avro Lancasters from the airfield on the strategic offensive against Germany from October 1943 until the spring of 1945, losing sixty-six aircraft on operations; No. 170 Squadron also formed there briefly. Flying ceased in 1945 and the station closed the following year. The runways were later broken up for aggregate and the land returned to farming, leaving a squadron memorial as the main reminder of its wartime role.