D-Day - Northern Route Trail
D-Day: Launchpad for the Liberation of Europe
These routes mark South Kesteven's role in the liberation of western Europe. The District contained US Troop Carrier airfields and the Headquarters of the US IX Troop Carrier Command.
Northern Route
This route visits two airfields used to fly the US 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division to Normandy on the night of the 5/6 June 1944.
The route departs Grantham along 5 Gates Lane through the National Trust's Belton Estate. A climb up the High Dyke brings you to the first stop: RAF Barkston Heath, the home of the US Army Air Forces' 61st Troop Carrier Group. The route then descends off the ridge to Ancaster and makes its way to Fulbeck via Caythorpe and another climb up the escarpment. The following descent passes through Fulbeck to the site of the former RAF Fulbeck (that hosted the 442nd Troop Carrier Group) before returning to Grantham via Hough-on-the-Hill, Barkston and 5 Gates Lane.
There are café stops are at Fulbeck Craft Centre and Syston Park Farm Shop.
The route departs Grantham along 5 Gates Lane through the National Trust's Belton Estate. A climb up the High Dyke brings you to the first stop: RAF Barkston Heath, the home of the US Army Air Forces' 61st Troop Carrier Group. The route then descends off the ridge to Ancaster and makes its way to Fulbeck via Caythorpe and another climb up the escarpment. The following descent passes through Fulbeck to the site of the former RAF Fulbeck (that hosted the 442nd Troop Carrier Group) before returning to Grantham via Hough-on-the-Hill, Barkston and 5 Gates Lane.
There are café stops are at Fulbeck Craft Centre and Syston Park Farm Shop.
Stop en route at Fulbeck Craft Centre
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