RAF Detling and Bimbury Castle - 2012
I Found this place whilst working so couldn't explore at the time. Went home and done a bit of research, then returned at the weekend.
I was very excited when I found an entrance to a tunnel under a large mound, "Plotting room" sprang to mind, but alas; no, just a small bunker. The mound is the remains of a Norman fort, the motte of which is still visible, on which the bailey would have stood, the whole place is dotted with WW2 defences and rubble.
RAF Detling served in both great wars, but sadly most of it has been demolished, but there still remains plenty of insights as what was there before, pill boxes, machine gun posts, air raid shelters, even some hangers remain, but now all interwoven with the industrial estate.
On site I also found the remains of Bimbury Castle Tower, almost completely split in half now by tree roots, and home to a Barn Owl the scared the begebies out me.
Binbury was mentioned in the Doomsdayday book as the property of Bishop Odo and when he was disgraced was granted to Gilbert Magminot; later it was the seat of the de Turnham family, then the Northwood family. and here lays a gruesome story about the death of Lady Northwood in the mid 14th century - she was standing on the motte when the sandy soil gave way beneath her, and she was buried alive and "stifled to death with the pressure".
I was very excited when I found an entrance to a tunnel under a large mound, "Plotting room" sprang to mind, but alas; no, just a small bunker. The mound is the remains of a Norman fort, the motte of which is still visible, on which the bailey would have stood, the whole place is dotted with WW2 defences and rubble.
RAF Detling served in both great wars, but sadly most of it has been demolished, but there still remains plenty of insights as what was there before, pill boxes, machine gun posts, air raid shelters, even some hangers remain, but now all interwoven with the industrial estate.
On site I also found the remains of Bimbury Castle Tower, almost completely split in half now by tree roots, and home to a Barn Owl the scared the begebies out me.
Binbury was mentioned in the Doomsdayday book as the property of Bishop Odo and when he was disgraced was granted to Gilbert Magminot; later it was the seat of the de Turnham family, then the Northwood family. and here lays a gruesome story about the death of Lady Northwood in the mid 14th century - she was standing on the motte when the sandy soil gave way beneath her, and she was buried alive and "stifled to death with the pressure".