I was at Marham twice. The 1st tour was 3 years and 8 months, and then after 2 years at Akrotiri, I asked to spend my last 6 months service at Marham.
My request was granted! Not a lot of competition.
Most of the 1st tour was as a living in, single Cpl/T, for the last two years, traveling to Teesside by BR at the weekends.
The social life around Marham was very much what you made it. I was active in the Sailing Club at Denver Sluice and the Jennings Arms.
Saturday nights we went to Norwich! Close to 50 miles away.
I got married and lived out in a grotty flat in KL. This only lasted 4 months and I was posted to Akrotiri with an accompanied passage.
The main thing that made my time there so pleasant was that I spent all of both postings on 214 Sqdn. The early days of IFR before it became AAR and lots of detachments.
Didn't have a car, wife didn't work. This was the norm in those days.