leafield

First, the History of the location, personal notes to follow. Leafield Technical Centre is a former radio transmission station, now turned motorsports centre of excellence, located in the hamlet of Langley, in the western part of the village of Leafield in Oxfordshire, England. Developed from...

I was lucky enough to have a quick sprint around here early January, i kinda wish i took the big camera and not a point and shoot but didnt really want to hang about down there . So much to see down there really and i feel lucky to have seen the place. I have been told the site is now secured...

Found this awesome place through word of mouth from a local Oxford boy, before I looked into it properly and realised how much I had to visit! Leafield was first a radio transmission centre which then turned into a 'motorsports centre of excellence'. It was developed in 1912 be The General...

The leafield underground workings were originally part of the Monks Park Quarry and were used for mining Bath stone from around 1886 with what is now the leafield site becoming known as western monks park. In 1914 the mining operations stopped and the area lay dormant until it was taken over by...

The old Caterham F1 team HQ. I have copied the history from a previous post as i imagine we all know it if you know about this place, but for those that don't i will paste it below: Leafield Technical Centreis a former radio transmission station, now turned motorsports centre of excellence...

Leafield Technical Centre is the former Caterham F1 Headquarters, based in Oxfordshire. There is history already on here about this place as most people know, so i shant bother you with it :) THE EXPLORE I was here a week or so ago for a couple of hours but decided to come back now I had a...

It's about time I wrote a report for my favourite abandoned location, the Leafield Technical Centre in Oxfordshire. Many urban explorers have branded this place one of the largest abandoned places in Britain, and it's hard to argue with that viewpoint once you properly take a look around. This...

So on Saturday decided to take a trip to the Caterham f1 HQ, it has been closed since 2014 I believe, due to the F1 team going into administration, It sits on a 28 acre site with fairly easy access. The Explore: So it took us a while to find an entrance, I didn't fancy climbing onto a roof in...

As a huge F1 fan we just had to visit this place, it was a shame that most of the place had been smashed up but thats what some people do. Was a really strange feeling whilst we were on site but still an amazing explore, a huge place I am sure we missed loads but please enjoy!

Thanks for viewing. It's 3 sites in 1. I thought it was 'just' a technical research centre. It turns out there's loads of history on the place. Warning - Scroll waaaay down for the pics. All history copied and pasted from various sites. There's plenty of it, either skip it or perhaps grab...

The History Leafield Technical Centreis a former radio transmission station, now turned motorsports centre of excellence, located in the hamlet of Langley, in the western part of the village of Leafield in Oxfordshire, England. Developed from 1912 as a radio transmission station by the General...