Nocton

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Nocton is a village 10 kilometres (7 miles) south of Lincoln in Lincolnshire within the East Midlands region of the United Kingdom.

Within the village there are All Saints' Church and a Post Office.

There is also a large Hall, originally constructed for the Ellys family, that burnt down in 1834 and was rebuilt in 1841 for the first Earl of Ripon. The US Army 7th General Hospital was based at Nocton Hall during World War Two. RAF Nocton Hall was a 740 bed hospital under RAF control from the 1940s until 1984. It was used by civilians and forces personnel until 1984, when it was leased to the USAF as a United States Air Force wartime contingency hospital. During the Gulf War, over 1,300 US medical staff were sent to the Hall and many were billeted at RAF Scampton. Fortunately only 35 casualties had to be treated. In its later days 13 American personnel remained to keep the hospital serviceable. RAF Nocton Hall was handed back to the British Government by the USAF on 30 September 1995. In unfortunately burnt down for a second time in 2004, a fire which reduced it to a shell.

In the first four decades of the 18th century, Sir Richard Ellys of Nocton formed a collection of books which eventually went to Blickling Hall in Norfolk by inheritance in the 1740s, though most of the books were in fact kept in London. They form the core of the great library of some 12,500 books, which is now in the care of the National Trust.