Monument record 0788000000 - 280m NNW of Cherry Farm

Puttenham was a decoy airfield for RAF Halton, operating as a night-time decoy additionally equiped with fires to simulate an incendiary attack ('Q' site and 'QF' site). The first documentary reference to both the 'Q' and 'QF' sites was on 1st August 1941 and the last reference to both sites was on 22nd November 1942 (B1).
The Q decoy was a 'T-type' layout (B2).
The detailed layout of the decoy airfield is not clear. B1 records the NGR as centred on SP883135.

A QF Decoy of World War II date is visible on historic aerial photographs as surface deposits, probably of remains of burning oil, and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located approximately NNW of Cherry Farm, Buckland, and centred at SP 88291 13624. This site, recorded as Q152a by Dobinson as a decoy for Halton, is visible only on photographs available to the project that were taken in 1944, in January and March. The site was identified as dark areas on the photographs and no structures were visible. These areas consisted of three groups of irregular shapes extending from a central point, probably where fire baskets were located, two H shaped areas possibly from boiling oil fires, and two straight narrow linear shapes, possibly from coal drip fires. Three further discrete, smaller, shapes were also visible within an irregular shaped boundary, two of these were on the boundary, which appears to have been a low earthwork, and the third is visible next to the field boundary at the south of the area. The control building for the decoy could not be definitively identified from the photographs available and therefore could not be mapped, and the remaining areas visible were not able to be identified. No fire breaks were visible on the photographs which showed the site. By 1945 there is no sign of the site apart from the low earthwork boundary, no evidence of which remains. Decoy sites nationwide had started to be dismantled by August 1944. (3-7).