Alconbury Weald celebrates heritage and community at annual event

Midday - 5pm on Saturday, 13 September 2025 at The Club and on Watch Office Green

This year’s Heritage Open Day at Alconbury Weald has something for all ages and interests, with a programme to celebrate the site’s history and heritage running alongside a community Fun Day packed with food, entertainment and activities.

The Heritage Open Day offers a rare opportunity to explore the site’s past.  As well as pre-booked guided tours of the Avionics Building - the military bunker that played a key role gathering intelligence from the TR1 reconnaissance aircraft during the Cold War – visitors can drop into The Club to discover how some of Alconbury Weald’s earliest residents would have lived during the Iron Age and Roman periods.  

There will also be two presentations in The Club:

• 1.15pm:  Oxford Archaeology will be sharing some of their insights into the site’s early history and showcasing some of the most exciting artefacts from its archaeological investigations.  
• 3.30pm: Airfield Research Group will be giving a special presentation and answering questions about the site’s military history.  Highlights will include the Cold War Avionics Building and the refurbished World War II Watch Office, which historically served as a central operations building to brief aircrew before wartime missions and is now home to The Watch Office Bar & Kitchen.

Weather permitting, a highlight of the event will be a flypast from a Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight around 3.30pm: a fitting salute to the site’s military heritage.

Complementing this, the community Fun Day organised by Alconbury Weald Community Association, will bring together over twenty stalls featuring handmade crafts and local produce. The event will also be well catered. As well as the full menu of light bites and main dishes and an outside bar at The Watch Office Bar & Kitchen, food trucks will be serving a tempting array of dishes from traditional fish and chips and burgers to pizza and Sri Lankan street food.

Families can also look forward to lawn games as well as organised sports and games from Huntingdonshire District Council’s activities team, while live music from resident band The Weald Thing and professional singer/songwriter Graham Buxton will provide an upbeat soundtrack to the afternoon.

The event is free to attend and all sessions, apart than the bunker tours, are available on a drop-in basis.

Whilst residents will be able to walk, cycle or scoot to the event, visitors can catch the AW1 or 904 to/from The Boulevard bus stop or free car parking is available behind The Incubators (please follow signage on the day).  You can find out about ways to get to Alconbury Weald sustainably at www.alconbury-weald.co.uk/travel.