Manby

Other amenities, including a primary school, The Manby Arms public house, two village shops, and an Italian restaurant, are in the conjoined village of Grimoldby, separated from Manby by the B1200 road.

[3] Houses in Manby were built for RAF personnel, with village streets named after aeroplanes.

[5] In the late 1980s the entire pre war Married Quarter estate Carlton Park was sold to a Roger Byron-Collins company.

It is now a business park, and the former airfield has been returned to agriculture with an intensive cattle fattening plant.

[6][7] The remainingg Officer's Mess building has been the subject of many arson attacks over the years as it sits in a derelict state.

Forces Graveyard, St Mary's churchyard
Inside the abandoned RAF Manby Officers Mess building.
Inside the abandoned RAF Manby Officers Mess building.