Linton-on-Ouse is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England, about eight miles north-west of York. It lies on the north bank of the River Ouse. History The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Luctone in the Bulford hundred. The manor at this time was split between Thorfin of Ravensworth and Thorn of Linton. Afterwards the manor was granted to Robert of Mortain. The manor passed to Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros in the 14th century and remained in their family until the mid-16th century. At the beginning of the 18th century the manorial rights were sold to University College, Oxford. The university built a school in the village in 1871. In the mid-18th century, Acts of Parliament were passed to make the River Ouse navigable. This included the building of a lock at Linton-on-Ouse that is now a Grade II Listed Building. There was a Catholic Chapel in the village between 1700 and 1855. Since 1937, Linton-on-Ouse has been home to a Royal Air Force station, RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Since 1957 the main role of the airfield has been the training of pilots, and with the main flying training ceasing from 2019, the Military Air Traffic Zone was rescinded in December 2020. In the summer of 1960 and 1961, the perimeter track of the airfield was used to form the Linton-on-Ouse Motor Racing circuit. In April 2022, the government announced its intention to convert the former RAF base into a reception, accommodation and processing centre for asylum seekers, as a way of defraying the £4.7 million per day cost of hotels being used. Asylum reception centre On 14 April 2022, the Home Office announced that the disused RAF station at Linton-on-Ouse would be converted to house 1,500 asylum-seekers, creating the first in a series of new ‘Greek-style' asylum reception centres designed to cut the cost of placing asylum-seekers in hotels. The announcement came as part of a wider plan centred around a £120 million agreement with the government of Rwanda whereby asylum-seekers arriving in the UK could be flown 4,000 miles away to have their asylum claims processed there. Local residents set up a campaign group with the slogan “Wrong plan, Wrong place”. They said that there had been no prior consultation and that their opposition was being met with silence from the Home office. They were supported by Kevin Hollinrake,