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
RAF Scampton Dam where, with complete disregard for his own safety, he repeated his tactics and once more drew on himself the enemy fire so that the attack could be successfully developed. In July 2009 RAF Scampton took delivery of three bronze busts depicting the station's three Victoria Cross recipients. In all there have been three gate guardians at RAF Scampton during the station's history. The first was Avro Lancaster "S-Sugar" along with the large Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs which the type had carried. In the late 1950s, as a preliminary to road widening work by Lincolnshire County Council, the Grand