RAF North Creake

England — County: Norfolk

52.9106, 0.8214 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF North Creake opened in Norfolk near Wells-next-the-Sea in 1943 and belonged to the secretive No. 100 Group, which waged the electronic war against German defences. Its Short Stirlings and Handley Page Halifaxes — flown by Nos. 199 and 171 Squadrons — carried ‘Mandrel’ jamming equipment to blot out enemy radar as the bomber stream passed, and on D-Day helped mount a spoof that simulated an invasion convoy heading for the Pas-de-Calais. Seventeen aircraft were lost on operations. The RAF left in 1947; the site is now farmland and an industrial estate, the control tower serving as a bed-and-breakfast.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including North Creake — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust and RAF North Creake — Wikipedia. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

Alignment south west of the main runway at former RAF North Creake http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/s25.html provides a background to this former Bomber Command base. The main runway ran north-east south-west and was almost entirely removed after the war. In the middle of the airfield, either side of the line of the old road from Little Walsingham to Burnham Thorpe, a fragment of the runway remains between the two belts of trees. If you are really interested, you can see the base in detail on the RAF 1946 aerial photographic survey of Norfolk to be found on the excellent http://www.historic-maps.norfolk.gov.uk/
ⓘ licence & creditNigel Jones / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alignment_south_west_of_the_main_runway_at_former_RAF_North_Creake_-_geograph.org.uk_-_421042.jpgView source & full licence →
ⓘ licence & creditAdrian S Pye / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Airfield_identification_tablet_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4159754.jpgView source & full licence →
ⓘ licence & creditEvelyn Simak / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Air_raid_shelter_by_the_Watch_office_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4106843.jpgView source & full licence →

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