The site of the main runways and dispersal hard standings of RAF Lindholme, "An expansion scheme aerodrome built on the wide expanse of Hatfield moors, some five miles east of Doncaster, the site, to the east of the A614 Trone to Bawtry road, was a mile south of the small village of Hatfield Woodhouse, the name first selected for the new station. Work began in the spring of 1938 taking in approximately 250 acres of pasture for the airfield itself and a further 150 for the camp and support facilities" (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/s13.html accessed 28th June 2006). The airfield was constructed in advance of WWII and during much of the war functioned as a training base for heavy bombers. Hampdens, Manchester's, Wellingtons and Lancaster's were all based here with the base considered the 'home of the Lancaster" as all Lancaster crews were trained at this base. Following WWII, the base became a solely training establishment for Bomber Command. It was sold in 1985 to the Prison Service with conversion of the runways back to agricultural use and the camp to the south reused as prison accommodation. Fragmentary legibility of the perimeter track which survives as does a Cold War ROC monitoring post at the north of this site. Before its construction the area of RAF Lindholme was surveyed drained farmland analogous to that described as HSY4403 and created from the former raised mire of Hatfield Moor as part of the 1825 award of the 1811 Hatfield Thorne, Fishlake, Stainforth and Sykehouse enclosure Act (Haywood 1825)