Alconbury?

[mr_spock]

Hi all,

just had an offer accepted on a house in Alconbury. It seems like a nice village, easy access to the A1, Huntingdon and, er, stuff.

Are any of you near there? Opinions? I'm not committed yet, just starting the process and can pull out if needed.

[CambsBill]

Can't comment on the village itself as don't live close enough, but you do know about the scale of housebuilding planned (& started) on the airfield site don't you?

If not, a search on Alconbury Weald will yield plenty of info

[mr_spock]

Yes, the village is the other side of the A1 and not affected. Actually, it will improve local services and may add a new, closer, train station. Alconbury Weston is much closer to Alconbury Weald, but I'm looking in Alconbury itself.

[n3il123]

Pubs not long closed

[mr_spock]

The Manor?

[n3il123]

No the White Hart ... but I was getting my Alconbury; Weston confused with my Alconbury... Panic over.

[feef]

I'm in St Neots, so not a million miles away. There's a monthly meet here at the Riverside car-park, check out the Herts, Beds and Cambs section for more info,

[mr_spock]

Thanks, I went to that once. Good breakfast! When I'm more local I'm sure I'll be a regular.

[ammark]

We designed and built the travel website for the new development on the airfield, so was lucky enough to get a tour around the airfield, some really cool old stuff there so suggest keeping your eyes open for open days particularly on the old U2 spy plane photo bunker (big enough to drive into in a Discovery) and surrounding bits.

The quality of the houses and infrastructure puts all the ones I've seen in Bedfordshire to shame.

[mr_spock]

Nice! I'll be in Alconbury itself, the other side of the A1. Contracts exchanged, moving on 15th September. Packing boxes abound at the moment!

[kiethton]

ammark said:

We designed and built the travel website for the new development on the airfield, so was lucky enough to get a tour around the airfield, some really cool old stuff there so suggest keeping your eyes open for open days particularly on the old U2 spy plane photo bunker (big enough to drive into in a Discovery) and surrounding bits.

The quality of the houses and infrastructure puts all the ones I've seen in Bedfordshire to shame.

Likewise, had the full tour with work inc. all areas of the bunker - bloody cool place, unfortunately the runway was full of cars/storage containers so no drag races could be performed :/

[ammark]

kiethton said:

Likewise, had the full tour with work inc. all areas of the bunker - bloody cool place, unfortunately the runway was full of cars/storage containers so no drag races could be performed :/

We got a bit of a run up the runway, but the end had motorcycle training going on. Not sure vmax in a Disco 4 is much cop mind!

[steve-5snwi]

I used to work for a company that rented a few hangers, we had a couple of the bomb hangers and a couple of the all weather hangers, we used to sit up in the roof or would sit on the water tank watching track days, I've also seen well into 3 figures as part of a VW fleet day in an r8 on half a runway. It's an impressive place, the biggest highlight was a raf chinook flying over around 100ft off the ground.

It's that long ago we used to go the the McDonald's flying saucer for breakfast

[Neilos24]

I pop over from St Neots now and again and have a few friends there. The hot rock steak at the manor is great.

[blade7]

Doesn't it flood in the village...

[anonymous-user]

Sometimes it does around the river (stating the obvious )

Its a nice village, I lived there for a year.

[mr_spock]

Yes, it does. Fortunately, the house I'm buying is one of the more modern ones, and is built up a slope from the road and is elevated anyway. The survey (and owner) says it didn't flood even in the highest recorded one in (IIRC) 1996. I'll treat is as an excuse to put a snorkel and wading kit on the Landy

[blade7]

I think it's the High St that's on the flood risk map.

[mr_spock]

Yup. I'm just in Flood Zone 2. Just. So no risk assessment needed.

[bimsb6]

If thats the village i am thinking , does it have a ford you can drive through in the middle of the village ? If so you will need to get on fttc broadband as standard out there is terrible ,the telephone exchange is miles away in a place called woolley . Nice village but no shops !