Visiting respectfully

This former airfield is not a museum: it’s people’s homes,
businesses and working farms. Any visits to the area need to be respectful so that history is protected.

The current ABCT marker

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 (a former T2 hangar) on Airfield
Road, on the south-west side of the old airfield. It is the airfield’s
only purpose-built public marker. This area is very busy with lorry traffic.

Please be especially careful while driving or walking, and do not block traffic if parking.

Public rights of way

Public footpaths and quiet lanes run through the airfield, and a surprising amount of the old airfield can be seen from
them - some of the runway, some surviving buildings.

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 buildings are on private
  land, and some are fragile and dangerous.
• No night visits, no “urban exploring”. These activities
  risk buildings being damaged or removed
• Farm traffic has the right of way. The airfield area is a working farm and the technical site is a busy
  grain store - park considerately and give lorries and machinery considerable room.
• Take photographs from public vantage points: plenty of excellent
  photos 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.