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RAF Hospital Nocton Hall was a 740-bed RAF hospital in Nocton, Lincolnshire serving the predominantly RAF personnel based at the large number of RAF Stations in the area. Officially designated as No. 1 RAF Hospital Nocton Hall, the facility opened for medical use in June 1947. The hospital...

This report is about Colinski Airfield located within RAF Spadeadam. As the Airfield only makes up a small part of the 9,000 acre facility, which incorporates other disused areas, it seems only right to name it accordingly. Colinski Airfield is 3 mock crushed stone runways arranged in a...

I had seen a few reports of this place popping up, and being quite an RAF and military fan in general, I really wanted to see it. So me and my usual two mates organised a day to go. The plan was to go here first early and spend the morning here, then try something else in the afternoon. But that...

In 1938 the War Department purchased nearby Minley Manor and established a tank training base, then in 1941 Hartford Bridge Flats was surveyed as a new air base and the site (over 650 acres) requisitioned in October. The massive base took over a year to complete with three runways, the longest...

Perched precariously on a lump of wood, one foot through the window into what we hoped would be the Morgue, I look up just as the green military land rover zoomed across the adjacent road from right to left. I paused for a moment in my predicament, hoping for a split second that they hadn't seen...

Though this site has plenty of pics already, the last report on this place was from five years ago - and even those were retrospectives. So maybe a few people will enjoy these pictures from long before the last reports here were posted.. Visiting twice with @Oxygen Thief, once at dusk, then a...

Hi all, Took my first visit to the former RAF Chilmark. Unfortunately did not manage to reach the underground parts of the site. Hopefully in the future this is something I can achieve. I have always wanted to have a mooch around Teffont. Managed to get some easy access to the east side above...

Bit of a quick one here but I can't recall ever seeing it on here before so it might be something new to members here. RAF Silverstone opened in 1943 as a bomber training site for the RAF's 17 Operational Training Unit (OTU), of 92 Group Bomber Command, and used Vickers Wellington planes to...

Checkendon Polish Camp is almost all that remains of the former RAF Woodcote. It was set separate feom the main base along isolated country lanes. Towards the end of the war it was used to house Italian prisoners of war, until it became a Resettlement Camp for displaced Polish soldiers in 1947...

This was a small stop on a weekend in Lincon for my 28th birthday. We tried a couple of other places this weekend, but weren't successful. All the same, this was a nice quick mooch. We just did the control tower for this one. Royal Air Force Coleby Grange or more simply RAF Coleby Grange was a...

Possibly one of my favourite visits from 2023, the forgotten remains of RAF Rivenhall. This was two visits in 2022 and 2023, the one in 2023 as I was in the area with a friend new to Urbex and it made for a good first explore for them. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force...

Another one from 2023. It turns out I have a lot of visits I never uploaded here. I don't know why! This was one from another weekend in Kent in the summer of 2023. It was a very warm day and we happened to be in the area, so stopped of for a quick nose around. We weren't here long due to the...

1. The History Situated alongside the western edge of the A15 between the village of Coleby and Nocton Heath, 12 km south of Lincoln, RAF Coleby Grange is a former World War 2 Royal Air Force station. It first opened in 1939 as a relief landing ground (RLG) for RAF Cranwell until operations were...

Just a short cycle from the Montgomery canal brought us to Rednal, a little discovered hotspot for abandoned places in the Shropshire region. Within the vicinity there is the old RAF base (of which this post covers just a fraction), the RAF instructional facility as well as the Rednal/West...

Warboys GCI Radar there is still a large telecommunications transmitter next to this sits but the origins of the site being 1941. Whilst its use and history is somewhat difficult to locate or verify, it is known that this was a Ground Control Interceptor (GCI) Radar Station used to lock...