Scampton Scampton Scampton is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish including Brampton and Broadholme at the 2011 census was 1,358. It is situated north from Lincoln, south-east from Gainsborough, and west from the A15 road. In the civil parish, between the village and the A15, is RAF Scampton. The airfield first opened in 1916 as Home Defence Flight Station Brattleby, becoming Scampton the following year, and then closing in 1919; it re-opened in 1936 as RAF Scampton. The Dambusters Inn on High Street contains RAF and Second World
William Cayley (MP) married and had one daughter, Sarah. He left Scampton to Richard Stonhewer with remainder to his cousins, the Cayleys of Brompton. William Cayley (MP) William Cayley (c.1695 — 14 February 1768), of Scampton, Lincolnshire, was a British consul in the Iberian peninsula from 1726 to 1746, Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain for Dover 7 February 1752 - April 1755., and a Commissioner of Excise from 1755 to 1767. His father was Simon Cayley, seventh son of Sir William Cayley, the second of the Cayley baronets. In 1722 William Cayley went to Lisbon as secretary to Sir Thomas