RAF Scampton well as Lincolnshire's aviation engineering heritage and the Dambusters Raid. It is hoped the project will secure the future of the base and compliment the proposals to establish an air show at Scampton. It was hoped that the facility would be opened by 2018 in order to mark the centenary of the creation of the Royal Air Force, however that proved to be somewhat ambitious. The council's current idea is to operate the facility in tandem with continued military activity at the base. The remnants of a Roman Villa are situated to the southwest of RAF Scampton. Excavation of the
Sir Robert Bolles, 2nd Baronet Sir Robert Bolles, 2nd Baronet Sir Robert Bolles, 2nd Baronet (1619 – 3 August 1663) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1663. Bolles was the son of Sir John Bolles, 1st Baronet of Scampton, Lincolnshire and his wife Katharine Conters, daughter of Thomas Conters, of Brodham, Lincolnshire and of East Barnet, Hertfordshire. He was baptised at Scampton on 11 April 1619. He supported the King in the Civil War and was fined £1,500 in January 1646. He succeeded to the baronetcy on 9 March 1648. After the Restoration in 1661, he was