We parked up next to the entrance to the Microlight Flying Centre. With the dogs on the leads we headed towards the dual carriageway and turned up the stairs going onto the Bernwood Jubilee Way. We climbed over the stile and along a gravel path towards another stile we walked over the grass towards the runway luckily there where no microlights flying about. Looking up and down the runway I kept thinking about the Bristol Blenheim Mk 1, Mk 4 bombers landing and taking off from here also the occasional Spitfire and Tempest it felt like walking on history. We carried on towards the old air control tower which is what we came here to see. After the lengthy walk over the fields we made it to the control tower. We went inside and saw the state it was in it was like being on
a movie set for the end of the world with
the scrap yard outside the windows and the mess inside. The walls and floor were partly covered with moss and a constant dripping in the background but wasn't as annoying as the alarm going off at the radio tower outside. After we finished looking around we got out and 2 helicopters flew over I guess going to Croughton airbase. We headed for the forest in hope of seeing more buildings. In the woods we found a paint ball range good thing no one was around or we would have come home multi-coloured. As we went further in we saw a missile we went to have a closer look and saw some more at the back of the woods. We carried on down through the woods and saw an old plane wings taken off but some of the controls still left inside. After a mess around we went even further through the woods and found a model submarine it was enormous bigger than the plane. We spent ages looking around here and picking up paint ball bullets. We finally gave up after about 3 hours. Click for A bit of history of RAF Finmere.
SP 653 323 (OS Grid Reference)
51.985362,-1.051372 (Google Maps)
N 51 59.122 W 001 03.082 (GPS Co-ords)
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