Reports - Hangar - Urban Exploration
Reports - Hangar
RAF Oakington
Where? Oakington, Cambridgeshire. Comments 188. Posted 23 August 2006.
RAF Oakington closed many years ago - in 1999 to be precise. A year later the domestic areas were turned into a high security immigration reception centre.
The good news is that technical buildings such as boiler-rooms and hangars aren't on the IRC site. The even better news is that there's a car boot sale on this part of the site every weekend, making access really easy.
But now for some bad news. The whole site is to go to make way for a new Cambridge commuter town...
RAF Watton
Where? Watton, Norfolk. Comments 60. Posted 12 August 2006.
RAF Watton closed in 1991 and sold in 1998. The residential areas were sold for residential use; and most of the technical buildings have been demolished, ie control towers, water towers, boiler rooms etc.
Four hangars remain and what is thought to be an old armoury. Everything was stupidly trashed though - that didn't deter us from the explore..
RAF Watton revisited
Where? Watton, Norfolk. Comments 18. Posted 7 April 2007.
I was up in Norfolk recently so paid a quick re-visit to RAF Watton to try out my "new" camera. If anyone remembers my report from July, you will know that there were four hangars and a little building remaining. Well, that's changed slightly now...
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RAF West Raynham
Where? Swaffham, Norfolk. Comments 434. Posted 23 August 2006.
RAF West Raynham is in Norfolk, near a town called Swaffham. It is seriously in the middle of nowhere, and was quite hard to find. It closed in 1994, and at the end of 2005 was put up for auction. There are loads of houses there and the local MP wants them to be used as residential housing again. This will be quite a task - 11 years of non-use have taken their toll.
I didn't really look round the housing areas, instead concentrating my trip on the cool military stuff. That said, I didn't manage to explore everything in the time I was there. There is a Bloodhound Missile launch site here (it was over the other side of the airfield) but I decided to leave when a scary dog started following me...
