Carew Cheriton Control Tower

RAF Carew Cheriton was a wartime coastal command airfield, and its control tower — restored room by room by volunteers — now stands as its memorial and museum: operations boards, radio kit, uniforms and the stories of the crews who flew anti-submarine patrols over the approaches this coast still watches. Small, personal and volunteer-guided, it lands harder than many museums ten times its size.

Opening is seasonal and part-time — the volunteers publish current open days on the tower's own site, so check before travelling. Entry charges are modest and go straight back into the restoration.

It sits minutes from Carew Castle and the tidal mill, making a fine double bill of very different histories, with the castle-and-millpond circular walk between them and the Carew Inn for afterwards.