Thorpe Abbotts

Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk

Thorpe Abbotts / Langmere

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1956
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16 April 2025
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100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum

AIRFIELD SITE

AIRFIELD SITE : 360 Degree Aerial Video of RAF Thorpe Abbotts Airfield

360 Degree Aerial Video of RAF Thorpe Abbotts Airfield - 7 May 2023

AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Photos of Thorpe Abbotts Airfield

AIRFIELD SITE : Airbase Works & Maintenance Site

AIRFIELD SITE : Airbase Works & Maintenance Site Vehicle Ramp

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.5

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.6

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.13

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.17

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.28

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.38, 39, 41 & 41

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.46

AIRFIELD SITE : Airfield Ident Letters

AIRFIELD SITE : Airfield Views

AIRFIELD SITE : Blast Shelter

LOCATED AT : 52.373660, 1.203975
EDOFBID : e31751

AIRFIELD SITE : Bomb Stores Trackway

AIRFIELD SITE : Gates

Although overgrown these gates are of possible of wartime origin and are near the site of a Bulk Fuel Installation on the north west side of the airfield.

AIRFIELD SITE : M & E Plinth

AIRFIELD SITE : Main Entrance

AIRFIELD SITE : Modern Hangar

This modern hangar that has been built on Wartime Hardstand 17. Believed to have been used for a light aircraft in the 1980's. It is now disused and is used for storage.

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 04/22

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 10/28

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 17/35

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiway at the east of the airfield

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiway at the north of the airfield

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiway at the south of the airfield

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiway at the south east of the airfield

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiway at the west of the airfield

BUILDING 1 : Control Tower

BUILDING 2 : Hangar / T2 Type Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 20 : Sub Station

BUILDING 21 : Ready Use Pyrotechnics Store

BUILDING 24 : Speech Broadcasting Building

BUILDING 30 : Battle Headquarters

LOCATED AT : 52.386103, 1.217075
EDOFBID : e01185

BUILDING 33 : Cloud Height Projector

BUILDING 38h : General Purpose Hut

BUILDING 38j : General Purpose Hut

BUILDING 38m : General Purpose Hut

BUILDING 79 : Flame Float Store

BUILDING 80 : Bomb Stores (Open Type D)

BUILDING 81 : Bomb Stores (Open Type D)

BUILDING 82 : Bomb Stores (Open Type D)

BUILDING 83 : Bomb Stores (Open Type D)

BUILDING 86 : Component Store

BUILDING 89 : Incendiary Bomb Store (Type B)

BUILDING 90 : Incendiary Bomb Store (Type B)

BUILDING 92 : Incendiary Bomb Store (Type B)

BUILDING 512 : Night Flying Equipment Store

BUILDING 531 : Shooting-In Butt

BUILDING 556 : Hangar / T2 Type Aircraft Shed

BARRACK SITE No.1

Barrack Site for the 351st Bomb Squadron

BARRACK SITE No.1 : Aerial Views

BARRACK SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 01

LOCATED AT : 52.375764, 1.192056
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 02

LOCATED AT : 52.376159, 1.192278
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 03

LOCATED AT : 52.376526, 1.192318
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 04

LOCATED AT : 52.376203, 1.191910
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 05

LOCATED AT : 52.376871, 1.191773
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.1 : Main Entrance

BUILDING 230 : Picket Post

BUILDING 260 : Officers Quarters

BUILDING 262 : Officers Quarters

BUILDING 270e : Airmens Barrack Hut

BUILDING 270f : Airmens Barrack Hut

BUILDING 270r : Airmens Barrack Hut

BUILDING 272 : Officers Ablutions and Latrines

BUILDING 273 : Sergeants and Airmens Ablutions and Drying Room

BUILDING 274 : Sergeants and Airmens Latrines

BARRACK SITE No.2

BARRACK SITE No.2 : Blast Shelter 01

LOCATED AT : 52.378532, 1.195695
EDOFBID : e44140

BARRACK SITE No.2 : Blast Shelter 02

LOCATED AT : 52.378296, 1.194894
EDOFBID : e44141

BARRACK SITE No.2 : Blast Shelter 03

LOCATED AT : 52.377600, 1.195679
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.2 : Blast Shelter 04

BARRACK SITE No.2 : Blast Shelter 05

BUILDING 266b : Sergeants Quarters

BUILDING 266c : Sergeants Quarters

BUILDING 266d : Sergeants Quarters

BARRACK SITE No.2 : Trackways

BARRACK SITE No.3

BARRACK SITE No.3 : Entrances

BARRACK SITE No.4

Barrack Site for the 350th Bomb Squadron

BARRACK SITE No.4 : Aerial Views

BARRACK SITE No.4 : Blast Shelter 01

LOCATED AT : 52.368912, 1.196294
EDOFBID : e31765

BARRACK SITE No.4 : Blast Shelter 02

LOCATED AT : 52.369410, 1.196300
EDOFBID : e31766

BARRACK SITE No.4 : Entrance

BARRACK SITE No.4 : M & E Plinth

BARRACK SITE No.4 : Trackways

BUILDING 262a : Officers Quarters

350th Bombardment Squadron Orderly Room

Sadly during 2019 part of the building was damaged while undergrowth and foliage was being cleared. In early 2021 it was vandalised and damaged further with the addition of graffiti inside. the building is now in a very poor state of repair and is very dangerous. Internal inspection of the building is no longer possible.

BARRACK SITE No.5

Barrack Site for the 418th Bomb Squadron

BARRACK SITE No.5 : Aerial Views

BARRACK SITE No.5 : Blast Shelter 01

LOCATED AT : 52.372800, 1.192295
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.5 : Blast Shelter 02

LOCATED AT : 52.372901, 1.190638
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.5 : Blast Shelter 03

LOCATED AT : 52.373101, 1.191480
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.5 : Blast Shelter 04

LOCATED AT : 52.373443, 1.190839
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.5 : Blast Shelter 05

LOCATED AT : 2.373443, 1.190069
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.5 : M & E Plinth

BUILDING 240 : Fuel Compound

BUILDING 261 : Officers Quarters

BUILDING 262a : Officers Quarters

BUILDING 262b : Officers Quarters

BUILDING 266b : Sergeants Quarters

BUILDING 270a : Barrack Hut

BUILDING 270b : Barrack Hut

BUILDING 270c : Barrack Hut

BUILDING 270d : Barrack Hut

BUILDING 270e : Barrack Hut

BUILDING 270f : Barrack Hut

BUILDING 270g : Barrack Hut

BUILDING 270h : Barrack Hut

BUILDING 280 : Officers Ablutions

BUILDING 282 : Sergeants & Airmens Ablutions

BUILDING 283 : Drying Room

BUILDING 282 : Sergeants & Airmens Latrines

BARRACK SITE No.6

Sub Depot Site

BARRACK SITE No.6 : Aerial Views

BARRACK SITE No.6 : Blast Shelter 01

LOCATED AT : 52.368864, 1.193676
EDOFBID : e31769

BARRACK SITE No.6 : Blast Shelter 02

LOCATED AT : 52.369672, 1.1931790
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.6 : Blast Shelter 03

LOCATED AT : 52.368828, 1.192958
EDOFBID : N/A

BARRACK SITE No.6 : Blast Shelter 04

LOCATED AT : 52.368573, 1.193235
EDOFBID : e31770

BARRACK SITE No.6 : Blast Shelter 05

LOCATED AT : 52.368772, 1.192057
EDOFBID : e31768

BUILDING 230 : Picket Post

BUILDING 260b : Officers Quarters

BUILDING 261a : Officers Quarters

BUILDING 261b : Officers Quarters

BUILDING 262b : Officers Quarters

BUILDING 262e : Officers Quarters

BUILDING 266a : Sergeants Quarters

BUILDING 266c : Sergeants Quarters

BUILDING 266d : Sergeants Quarters

BUILDING 266f : Sergeants Quarters

BUILDING 270b : Airmens Barrack Hut

BUILDING 270e : Airmens Barrack Hut

BUILDING 283 : Drying Room

COMMUNAL SITE No.1

BUILDING 104 : Sergeants Showers

BUILDING 109 : Grocery & Local Produce Store

BUILDING 115 : Standby Set House

BUILDING 272 : Borehole & Pump House No.1

BUILDING 273 : Chlorinating & Softening Plant

BUILDING 275 : Static Water Tank

COMMUNAL SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 01

LOCATED AT : 52.375986, 1.194609
EDOFBID : e44147

COMMUNAL SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 02

LOCATED AT : 52.375851, 1.195347
EDOFBID : e31763

COMMUNAL SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 03

LOCATED AT : 52.375750, 1.195839
EDOFBID : e31762

COMMUNAL SITE No.1 : Dishwasher

COMMUNAL SITE No.1 : Main Entrance

COMMUNAL SITE No.1 : Trackways

COMMUNAL SITE No.2

COMMUNAL SITE No.2 : Trackways

SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS SITE

SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS : Aerial Views

SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS : Destructor Shed

SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS : Filtration Beds

SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS : Sludge Drying Beds

SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS : Tool Shed

STATION SICK QUARTERS SITE

BUILDING 202 : Ambulance Garage & Mortuary

BUILDING 204 : Ablutions, Latrine and Drying Room

WAAF SITE No.1

WAAF SITE No.1 : Entrance

MEMORIALS AT THORPE ABBOTTS

MEMORIAL SITE : 100th Bombardment Group Memorial Plaque

MEMORIAL SITE : All Saints Church, Thorpe Abbotts

MEMORIAL SITE : Control Tower Memorial Plaque

MEMORIAL SITE : General Curtis E LeMay Memorial

MEMORIAL SITE : John Laing Construction Plaque

MEMORIAL SITE : Michael Harvey Memorial Plaque

MEMORIAL SITE : Memorial Rose Garden

MEMORIAL SITE : Signal Square

MEMORIAL SITE : Thorpe Abbotts Village Sign

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS : Common Farm, Upper Billingford

MISCELLANEOUS : Fuel Tank

It is thought that this may be a former fuel tank for the airfield that would have been buried as part of a Bulk Fuel Installation. This is yet to be confirmed by me and if you haev any information regarding them, please let me know.