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 Post Office into a radio transmission centre but decommissioned in 1986 after being taken over by British Telecom. It was then redeveloped as a training site by BT but closed again in 1993.
It turned into a motorsports centre in 2003 and was last owned by Caterham F1. However, Caterham declared bankruptcy in early 2015 and since then Leafield Technical centre has been abandoned and is currently up for sale (according to Wiki).
It is super easy to find, still on Google maps which was odd and signage is still up, probably why it is so vandalised. Getting in was simple as it is pretty trashed, on both trips I manages about 2 hours until security came, security were really nice and just basically said please leave.
If you like climbing the roof is fab and you can easily get in the roof rafters and see into the sky light that goes into the blue presentation/theatre type room.
I first went in Nov 2020 with my partner then again last weekend with my friend (socially distanced!)
I would defo recommend a trip here, if you get there at the right time the light through the windows is awesome.
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Leafield was first a radio transmission centre which then turned into a 'motorsports centre of excellence'.
It was developed in 1912 be The General Post Office into a radio transmission centre but decommissioned in 1986 after being taken over by British Telecom. It was then redeveloped as a training site by BT but closed again in 1993.
It turned into a motorsports centre in 2003 and was last owned by Caterham F1. However, Caterham declared bankruptcy in early 2015 and since then Leafield Technical centre has been abandoned and is currently up for sale (according to Wiki).
It is super easy to find, still on Google maps which was odd and signage is still up, probably why it is so vandalised. Getting in was simple as it is pretty trashed, on both trips I manages about 2 hours until security came, security were really nice and just basically said please leave.
If you like climbing the roof is fab and you can easily get in the roof rafters and see into the sky light that goes into the blue presentation/theatre type room.
I first went in Nov 2020 with my partner then again last weekend with my friend (socially distanced!)
I would defo recommend a trip here, if you get there at the right time the light through the windows is awesome.
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