RAF Balderton

Balderton airfield is a little south of Newark and opened in 1941. It was primarily used as a troop carrier transport airfield including by the USAAF from January 1944 until September 1944 during which time it supported Operation Market Garden. It was returned to RAF use after this, being home to Avro Lancasters of 227 Squadron until April 1945. After this it saw little use apart from bomb storage and was eventually sold at auction in 1959.

Today nothing really remains of the airfield with the modern day A1 having been re-routed through  it and open pit gypsum mining having destroyed most of the rest. However, a memorial stone has been erected at the original site of the main entrance.