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Perimeter Road on old USAF Upper Heyford
Perimeter Road on old USAF Upper Heyford passing grass mound POL site 21b
Image: © Shaun Ferguson
Taken: 11 Aug 2020
0.05 miles
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Welcome To Yo R Store
Empty supermarket at Upper Heyford airbase.
RAF Upper Heyford opened for flying in 1918 and was used by the RAF in WW2. Later it was used by the Americans, but the last USAF aircraft left on December 7 1993 and a fully equipped base was handed back to the Ministry of Defence, along with the big question of what to do with it.
The housing has been rented out and some of the buildings are business units in various states of repair, but nearly two decades on whole sections of the place still look like a ghost town.
Lots of info on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Upper_Heyford
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 12 Mar 2012
0.11 miles
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Yesterday's News
Mouldering papers lie in the grass beside an derelict parking lot at Upper Heyford airfield. On the left is a large, empty and vandalized hospital and on the right a boarded up supermarket.
RAF Upper Heyford opened for flying in 1918 and was used by the RAF in WW2. Later it was used by the Americans, but the last USAF aircraft left on December 7 1993 and a fully equipped base was handed back to the Ministry of Defence, along with the big question of what to do with it.
The housing has been rented out and some of the buildings are business units in various states of repair, but nearly two decades on whole sections of the place still look like a ghost town.
Lots of info on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Upper_Heyford
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 12 Mar 2012
0.13 miles
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Dacey Drive, Upper Heyford Airfield
Image: © Alex McGregor
Taken: 19 Feb 2015
0.17 miles
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Ex-USAF base To Let
Upper Heyford was formally handed over to the USAF 3rd Air Force on 15 May 1951 and on 30 September 1994 the base was returned to the Ministry of Defence. More details of what happened between these dates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Upper_Heyford
Image: © Stuart Logan
Taken: 31 Mar 2013
0.17 miles
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Roundabout
Image: © Alex McGregor
Taken: 19 Feb 2015
0.17 miles
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Old MOD Buildings at Upper Heyford
Old, but still in use it would seem.
Image: © Ian Paterson
Taken: 23 May 2007
0.18 miles
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Water Tower, Upper Heyford Airfield
This may well still be in service as many of the former military buildings and houses on the airfield site are now in civilian use.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 12 Mar 2012
0.19 miles
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Water Tower, Upper Heyford Airfield
Image: © Alex McGregor
Taken: 19 Feb 2015
0.19 miles
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Old Huts, Upper Heyford Airfield
A few of many such buildings in this derelict part of the site.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 12 Mar 2012
0.21 miles