Weedon Depot Visitor Centre
Weedon Depot Visitor Centre, Building 90, Bridge Street, Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, NN7 4PS
Northants’s best kept secret is open for Open Heritage Days!
Once a closely guarded military secret The Royal Ordnance Depot Weedon Bec is now open daily to the public, enjoying its many shops and businesses and its rich architecture and military history.
Built at the height of the Napoleonic War this unique 20 acre site supplied the British Army for 150 years with weapons, uniforms and supplies in every conflict around the globe.
Hundreds of workers dug a canal arm from the Grand Junction Canal and erected eight Georgian storehouses alongside to receive guns and gunpowder from barges. Through the Victorian, Edwardian and to the mid-20th century, scores of buildings went up with thousands of soldiers and civilians including many women employed.
2025 is the 60th anniversary of the Army leaving the Depot. This year for Heritage Open Days, on Sunday Sept 21 as well as the regular exhibitions in the Visitor Centre in Building 90 we hope to welcome re-enactors, military vehicles and displays and lots of visitors. There is a rare opportunity for free accompanied inspections of the restored Bastion from which soldiers guarded the Depot and which is not normally open to the public. Guided tours of the whole site can also be booked on the day.
The Depot, Harmans Way, Weedon Bec, Northants NN7 4PS is open all day, the event at Building 90 is open from midday till 5pm. Entry and parking is free. Visit www.weedonvc.uk
Timings & Tours
- Sunday 21 September:
- 12.00 noon and 2.00pm
Location & directions
Weedon Depot Visitor Centre, Building 90, Bridge Street, Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, NN7 4PS
- Directions:
- The Depot Visitor Centre, Building 90 is on your left as you enter through the Depot gate, its the portcullis building with the clock tower on the top of the building
- Contact on day:
- Doreen Addicott
- Telephone number:
- +441327226812
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Book on day
- Booking conditions:
- Book at the Visitor Centre on the day. This is a working site so please be aware of traffic and wear suitable outside clothes and footwear for the weather.
- Booking contact name:
- Doreen Addicott
Accessibility details
There are no special disabled parking on site but there are planty of spaces that can be used with enough spaces around them to get a wheelchair and its user out of the vehicle.
Additional information
The Visitor Centre is full of history of the 200 year old site and Guides can inform you about it's long history, it also has many artifacts to see.
- Max no of people per tour:
- 30
- Est. tour duration:
- 1 hour(s) 30 minute(s)
