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The crumbly old runways and perimeter tracks of Lincolnshire's many disused airfields have proved popular locations for all sorts of automotive fun, with new venues like Blyton Park springing up alongside more established and traditional parkland circuits like Cadwell. Close to the latter and near to Louth, Manby Motorplex is your traditional disused airfield with a perimeter track that serves as a circuit and a huge variety of off-road terrain for putting everything from tanks to rally cars through their paces.

And it could all be yours for £3.5m, ono.

Boss James Tointon is the reluctant vendor, forced by circumstance to put the site on the market and keen to see it flourish as a base for grassroots motorsport rather than be ploughed back into farmland as might well happen if a suitable buyer isn't found.

The site, which includes 100 acres of off-road tracks, 25 acres of hard standing, the 2.3-mile perimeter track, an airstrip and 300 acres of, it says here, 'prime agricultural land' could be sold off in separate chunks should an operator want to pick up just the motorsport side and Tointon is keen to see this survive in new hands. OK, so there is the small issue of the occasional unexploded bomb being dug up from time to time but don't let that put you off if you're interested!

Interested parties can contact the estate agents here. Raising the question, what's it to be: a home counties mansion with heated, air conditioned outbuildings in which to store your collection of supercars? Or a large portion of Lincolnshire with a ready-made track upon which you can drive them properly whenever you damn well please? OK, it's a long way from Surrey. But that's what the airstrip is for...

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Manby Motorplex
Price:  £3.5m
Why you should: Your track, your rules
Why you shouldn’t: Unexploded ordnance