Leamington Hastings Lighting Decoy Site
A lighting civil decoy site from the Second World War designed to confuse the enemy into dropping their bombs in the wrong place. It was located 500m northeast of Leamington Hastings.
1 Leamington Hastings lighting bombing decoy site in the QL programme for the Coventry area. It was set up to simulate factory lighting and so draw the enemy away from the real target of a factory in east Coventry.
Lighting decoys proved a cheap and successful way of confusing the enemy, and their deployment dates from July 1941. Every site differed, so that they were a sort of theatrical lighting show to mimic some specific local vulnerable point. An associated shelter would have been built to house the generator/s and other equipment.
2 An aerial photo of 1947 shows no evidence of earthworks, although a dummy building was also documented at this grid reference.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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