RAF Bodney – Norfolk

One of the great things about this website (that sounds egotistical, but I shall continue) is the amount of feedback I receive from visitors. Most leave memories of their times at the places I visit. Some leave compliments. And very very rarely I get tip-offs about locations. “Steve” left one such comment regarding RAF Bodney and sent a photo of the control tower there. I had a spare morning so decided to visit…

Wikipedia has a ton of info about the place, including an aerial photo showing two hangars. I missed those areas so don’t know if they’re still there.

Control tower

It was windowless, full of pigeons and swallows, didn’t smell..

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Underground battle HQ

It was flooded and I didn’t have good shoes with me, so I didn’t go in very far…

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Guard/pillbox

This seemed really tall!

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Bomb shelter

There was a dead deer in here.

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Some random buildings

There were some random buildings scattered around in the forests.

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11 Responses to RAF Bodney – Norfolk

  1. Diane says:

    Thanks for sharing pictures of a place I will probably never see in person. My 2nd cousin, Earl Abbott was a pilot with the 328th FS and was MIA on Jan 15, 1945. I wasn’t even born when he died but these pictures help me realize the stories I read about him and his stay at Bodney are real and I appreciate what he and all the members of 352 FG did to give me the kind of America I live in. Thank you.

  2. Trapper says:

    The 352nd Virtual Fighter Group is in the process of making airfields for IL-Sturmovik; and includes Bodney. Please visit and have a look @ http://352ndfg.com/smf/index.php?topic=1520.0
    For other RAF airfields in progress see http://352ndfg.com/smf/index.php?board=33.0

  3. andrew says:

    I learnt to drive on that airfield in 1968-69 with a great friend: Nora. Beautiful memories.

  4. andrew macvine says:

    Has anyone any memories of my mother Daphne vieusseux who was a driver at bodney in 1941-42 ?

  5. Lizzie says:

    Who owns this site now, as I thought it was still owned by the MOD? Is it possible to visit without permission? There is so much history to Bodney, it is a shame that a group hasn’t been set up to restore it as a musuem, like Thorpe Abbotts.

  6. Lizzie says:

    Who owns this site now, as I thought it was still owned by the MOD? Is it possible to visit without permission? There is so much history to Bodney, it is a shame that a group hasn’t been set up to restore it as a musuem, like Thorpe Abbotts.

  7. Joe Noah says:

    I have some photos taken at various times after the War: 1969 was my first visit. I will try to post a few.

  8. ted moore says:

    still no reply as to present ownership, can anybody help me ? am G7AIR, operator of G3/G7EUG and RAFARS member would like to operate portable AOTA statrion from here. Ted

  9. Pete, says:

    I’m glad to see other people enjoying this place as much as i have. Iv’e slept in the control tower on more than a few occasions. My father has written a series of books about airfields called ‘The military airfields of Britain’ which may be of interest to some of you. I am trying to find out how much it would be to purchase the Bodney site, to make a world war two museum. Any help on this matter would be very much appreciated. If we don’t look after these places no one else will.

  10. Jim says:

    The site is privately farmed but owned by MOD and is in regular use as part of STANTA training area. You trespass at your peril!

  11. mrs bale says:

    does anyone have any old pictures of the dancehall?

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