After seeing a few peoples visits to here I knew I simply had to get there no matter what. So myself and Landie Man organised one of our northern UK weekenders with my main target being this place and his another one I will be posting later.

This base is by far and away my favourite RAF base I have ever done, the majority of the base closed around 1992 and it has been sat there slowly decaying ever since. The level of dereliction is wonderful, everywhere you turn there is a photo opportunity, the trees and vegetation have run rampant all over the site giving it a real ghost town feel and I took more photos here than I've taken in any site for as long as I can remember. The base was bought in 2013 by a businessman who now operates an airport catering for light aircraft and private planes off of the old runways and hangars but the rest of the buildings are completely abandoned.

As for the visit, after parking up and immediately being approached by a very friendly local with a gorgeous brown Labrador out for a walk and a bit of a friendly chat he disappeared back into his house and we made our entrance into the base. We spent over four hours in there undisturbed which was lovely.

I make no apologies for how many photos there are here.

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Thanks for looking

Wow, what an incredible place. Outstanding set dude.

Fantastic! Outstanding set!

That paint peel in 13 is ridiculous!

Very cool!

34 takes the cake for me!

Cheers peeps, it was an awesome place to wander around and a great chilled one as well, didn't see or hear a soul all day.

Posted by mookster <snip>...didn't see or hear a soul all day.

Those are the best days!

Abby