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After seeing a few peoples visits to here I knew I simply had to get there no matter what. So myself and Landie Man organised one of our northern weekenders with my main target being this place and his another one I will be posting later.
RAF Church Fenton is by far and away my favourite RAF base I have ever done, the majority of the base closed around 1992 and it has been sat there slowly decaying ever since. The level of dereliction is wonderful, everywhere you turn there is a photo opportunity, the trees and vegetation have run rampant all over the site giving it a real ghost town feel and I took more photos here than I've taken in any site for as long as I can remember. The base was bought by a businessman who now operates Leeds East Airport off the old runways and hangars, catering for light aircraft mostly.
As for the visit, after parking up and immediately being approached by a very friendly local with a gorgeous brown Labrador out for a walk and a bit of a friendly chat he disappeared back into his house and we made our entrance into the base. We spent over four hours in there undisturbed until the very end when we bumped into TrevBish and a group of other explorers who had headed here after doing Redcar earlier that evening. Me and Harry saw pretty much everything except the plant room but I'll just have to see that next time as I want to go back so badly.
I make no apologies for how many photos there are here.
Thanks for looking 
