Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk
Thorpe Abbotts / Langmere
Opened :
Closed : Current use : IATA : ICAO : EDOFBID : This page updated : USAAF Sta No : Website : |
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
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 : M & E Plinth
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
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
EDOFBID : N/A
BARRACK SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 02
LOCATED AT : 52.376159, 1.192278
EDOFBID : N/A
EDOFBID : N/A
BARRACK SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 03
LOCATED AT : 52.376526, 1.192318
EDOFBID : N/A
EDOFBID : N/A
BARRACK SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 04
LOCATED AT : 52.376203, 1.191910
EDOFBID : N/A
EDOFBID : N/A
BARRACK SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 05
LOCATED AT : 52.376871, 1.191773
EDOFBID : N/A
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
EDOFBID : e44140
BARRACK SITE No.2 : Blast Shelter 02
LOCATED AT : 52.378296, 1.194894
EDOFBID : e44141
EDOFBID : e44141
BARRACK SITE No.2 : Blast Shelter 03
LOCATED AT : 52.377600, 1.195679
EDOFBID : N/A
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
EDOFBID : e31765
BARRACK SITE No.4 : Blast Shelter 02
LOCATED AT : 52.369410, 1.196300
EDOFBID : e31766
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
EDOFBID : N/A
BARRACK SITE No.5 : Blast Shelter 02
LOCATED AT : 52.372901, 1.190638
EDOFBID : N/A
EDOFBID : N/A
BARRACK SITE No.5 : Blast Shelter 03
LOCATED AT : 52.373101, 1.191480
EDOFBID : N/A
EDOFBID : N/A
BARRACK SITE No.5 : Blast Shelter 04
LOCATED AT : 52.373443, 1.190839
EDOFBID : N/A
EDOFBID : N/A
BARRACK SITE No.5 : Blast Shelter 05
LOCATED AT : 2.373443, 1.190069
EDOFBID : N/A
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
LOCATED AT : 52.368864, 1.193676
EDOFBID : e31769
EDOFBID : e31769
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 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
EDOFBID : e44147
COMMUNAL SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 02
LOCATED AT : 52.375851, 1.195347
EDOFBID : e31763
EDOFBID : e31763
COMMUNAL SITE No.1 : Blast Shelter 03
LOCATED AT : 52.375750, 1.195839
EDOFBID : e31762
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.
MISCELLANEOUS : Picket-Hamilton Fort
LOCATED AT : 52.386476, 1.212537
EDOFBID : e11452
EDOFBID : e11452