Visiting respectfully

The airfield is not a museum: it’s people’s homes,
businesses and working farms. It’s essential to visit in a way which respects that

The current ABCT marker

The natural place to start. The granite marker to the airfield’s
wartime past, unveiled by the Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust
in November 2024, stands beside the Fersfield Grain Store on Airfield
Road, on the south-west side of the old airfield. It is the airfield’s
one purpose-built public marker.

Public rights of way

Public footpaths and quiet lanes run through this corner of south
Norfolk, and a surprising amount of the old airfield can be seen from
them - the lines of the perimeter track, the surviving buildings across
the fields, the sheer scale of the place. Use an Ordnance Survey map
(or Norfolk County Council’s public map of rights of way) to see
exactly where you may walk, and stay on those routes.

Suggested approach

• Keep to public rights of way and roads. You can see a great deal
  from them
• Don’t enter buildings or cross fences. The ruins are on private land, and some are fragile and dangerous.
• No night visits, no “urban exploring”. Every torch beam near
  someone’s home risks buildings being damaged or removed
• Farm traffic has the right of way. It’s a working farm and a busy
  grain store - park considerately and give lorries and machinery considerable room.
• Take photographs from public vantage points — plenty of excellent
  ones have been

Why we’re mentioning this

The people who own and work on the old airfield generously supported the continued existence of the airfield buildings, and their trust depends on visitors behaving well.