The remains of Beaulieu Airfield are situated on a large and expansive heathland. You can quite easily spend a whole day walking the heath to see different aspects. Whilst my focus is the military...
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During wartime, airfields the size and specification of RAF Beaulieu had a cinema to help entertain the personnel on site. Films as well as shows could be shown there, as a stage could also be set-up...
RAF Beaulieu had an accommodation area called the Defence Site. It was located in what we know as Stockley Inclosure, on the bend of the B3055 road, west of Hawkhill Inclosure’s bomb store...
Some of you might have heard about or stumbled across a plaque on the Beaulieu Airfield heathland. It’s not too far from one of the perimeter track and runway edges and commemorates two gentlemen,...
From 1945 to 1950, the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment (AFEE) came to the RAF Beaulieu Airfield to start testing aircraft and parachute systems. Locals would have seen all sorts being...
Like the majority of structures on the site, the Beaulieu Airfield control tower no longer exists. It would have been demolished when the airfield was handed back to the Forestry Commission from 1960...