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Recently I visited RAF Rudloe Manor which was one of the first of many sites I have been waiting a long time to visit. Not to bore you with too much history, here is a small extract taken from Wiki

The Rudloe Site was formerly RAF Rudloe Manor, which was established during the Second World War as a non-flying station for administrative and command & control purposes. It was home to HQ Number 10 Fighter Group, RAF Regional Command, Headquarters RAF Police & Security Services, No 1 Signals Unit, Controller Defence Communications Network and 1001 Signals Unit. By 1998 it had become mostly administrative, housing the RAF Provost and Security Services, which dealt with security and criminal investigation services, the Defence Communication Services Agency, while the detachment of 1001 Signals Unit of the RAF remained. It closed as an operational site in about 2000.

The base has two main buildings – a manor house and a purpose-built operations building. There are several smaller, newer buildings scattered around the site too.

Now on to some images, I have taken well over 150+ and have chosen some of the best. I will be revisiting very very soon so should get some better images when I'm not in too much of a hurry. I apologise for the quality of the images for the reason that I did not have much time to walk around a site which was MASSIVE. I could have easily spent 6-7 hours here given enough time.

These are not in order, please enjoy


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Thanks for Looking

might just be me as i am on a works pc but the pics arent working can u try and fix if they are broken

You need to follow the instructions in [ame="http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=17009"]this thread[/ame] to post photos from flickr.

that one of the blu green and red dots is wicked!

Always worth hitting the preview post button before sending,saves a lot of cock-ups

oldscrote said:

Always worth hitting the preview post button before sending,saves a lot of cock-ups

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and a lot of sarcastic responses

There you go... ouch the manor and coach houses were almost pristine 3 years ago, it saddens me to see all the original glass being smashed, it can't be replaced.

I was amazed at the size of the place. I'm due to visit again on a bank holiday in the hope of spending a good few hours to have a more indepth look around and to document more of the site. I'm also planning on getting in to the actual manor to find out what is so secretive its all boarded up.

There's speculation that it may have an entrance to the underground tunnels, but this I cannot confirm for sure. Will have to find out.

Parsons1986 said:

I'm also planning on getting in to the actual manor to find out what is so secretive its all boarded up.

There's speculation that it may have an entrance to the underground tunnels, but this I cannot confirm for sure. Will have to find out.

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There is nothing secretive about the manor, it is a valuable listed building which the owners don't want trashed any more than it already is. There are no underground tunnels, sorry to burst your bubble.

Ahh well. Cant hurt to think it was more interesting. Reminds me of my old house from a few years ago. Built around the same time.

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Ahh well. Cant hurt to think it was more interesting. Reminds me of my old house from a few years ago. Built around the same time.

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It's a fantastic old manor house, it's one of my favourite sites.

Nice post Parsons - always a bit of a learning curve with the first reports - look forwards to some more soon

the substation is in mint condition and to be fair we held off posting pics of it just incase but i guess with the owners doing the work soon it should be ok now

the inside of the manor is bad now, couple of nice fireplaces but the floors have all gone and are being supported on all levels to keep it together, its a shame really

there are no tunnels but there is defo a underground air raid shelter there some where from what the locals have said, and its a big ish one but we never found it and we spent ages on a couple of visits

tommo said:

there are no tunnels but there is defo a underground air raid shelter there some where from what the locals have said, and its a big ish one but we never found it and we spent ages on a couple of visits

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I heard and found the same. Makes me wonder if those 2 small thick walled and well secured buildings that look like pillboxes but aren't are the entrances.

You could be right but they where still going down there at the weekends getting lashed up back in august last year an those bunkers have been bricked up for along time, need to get chatting to them again to find out, the role the place had back in the 40's ment it would of defo needed an air raid shelter or small bunker but away from the site I guess

And they said it's defo underground and about 4-5 big rooms all connected, I did think the basement of the manor house but we couldn't find it or anything else

tommo said:

You could be right but they where still going down there at the weekends getting lashed up back in august last year an those bunkers have been bricked up for along time, need to get chatting to them again to find out, the role the place had back in the 40's ment it would of defo needed an air raid shelter or small bunker but away from the site I guess

And they said it's defo underground and about 4-5 big rooms all connected, I did think the basement of the manor house but we couldn't find it or anything else

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Hmmm, it's possible it could be further along the lane, there was a domestic site down there on the right as you follow it down. I never looked at it that closely though as it's mostly rubble and nissen hut bases now. Curious!

krela said:

Hmmm, it's possible it could be further along the lane, there was a domestic site down there on the right as you follow it down. I never looked at it that closely though as it's mostly rubble and nissen hut bases now. Curious!

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Well I'm due to visit this bank holiday, so I'll take a wander and see what I can find. Will update you if I find anything of interest.