V Bomber Airfields

Where were the V Bomber Airfields in the UK?

The V Bomber force consisted of the Vickers Valiant, Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor. In the UK there were ten main base airfields and numerous dispersed airfields that the fleet could operate from. These were as follows:

MAIN BASES:

Coningsby, Lincolnshire
Cottesmore, Rutland
Finningley, Nottinghamshire (Yorkshire)
Gaydon, Warwickshire
Honington, Suffolk
Marham, Norfolk
Scampton, Lincolnshire
Waddington, Lincolnshire
Wittering, Northamptonshire (Cambridgeshire)
Wyton, Huntingdonshire

DISPERSAL AIRFIELDS:

Ballykelly, Londonderry
Bedford (Thurleigh), Bedfordshire
Boscombe Down, Wiltshire
Brawdy, Pembrokeshire
Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire
Burtonwood, Lancashire
Cranwell, Lincolnshire
Coltishall, Norfolk
Elvington, Yorkshire
Filton, Gloucestershire
Kinloss, Morayshire
Leconfield, Yorkshire
Leeming, Yorkshire
Leuchars, Fife
Llanbedr, Merionethshire
Lossiemouth, Morayshire
Lyneham, Wiltshire
Machrihanish, Argyllshire
Manston, Kent
Middleton St George, Durham
Pershore, Worcestershire
Prestwick, Ayrshire
St Mawgan, Cornwall
Shawbury, Shropshire
Tarrant Rushton, Dorset
Valley, Anglesey
Wattisham, Suffolk
Yeovilton, Somerset

OVERSEAS AIRFIELDS:

Akrotiri, Cyprus
Luqa, Malta
Masirah, Oman
Thumrait, Oman
Wideawake, Ascension Islands

UNCONFIRMED DISPERSAL AIRFIELDS:

Aldergrove, Antrim
Carnaby, Yorkshire
Kemble, Gloucestershire
Stansted, Essex

Vickers Valiant BK.1 (XD818) at Cosford.

Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 (G-VLCN / XH558) at Waddington.

Handley Page Victor K.2 (XM715) at Bruntingthorpe.