RAF Barkway
Royal Air Force Barkway or more simply RAF Barkway was one of the smallest Royal Air Force stations in the United Kingdom. It was a communications station and was a small collection of buildings and a large radio mast.
History
It was originally opened as a monitor station on 22 June 1942 for the Gee network in the Eastern area.The site was used by the United States Air Forces in Europe. It was part of communications network linking:
In September 2008, the station was broken into by a BASE jumper who climbed the mast and then jumped off and deployed his parachute.