Monument record 0950800000 - Maids Moreton Road
Summary
Hostel for land girls and refugees during the Second World War
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Type and Period (1)
- HOSTEL (Modern - 1939 AD? to 1945 AD?)
Description
A Hostel along Maids Morton Road, a long wooden structure, billeted 30 or 40 Land Girls. Later it housed Jewish refugees, and eventually it was used for Yugoslav Displaced Persons. (B1). Footnote says see ‘Over my Shoulder’ by Violet Cowley, story of WLA experience.
Possible site estimated from historic maps. Nothing shown on OS 6" 1919-27 Edition. On OS 6" Emergency Edition, 1938, there is a long building on Maids Moreton Road, which appears again on the OS 6" Provisional edition of 1944-51, but is replaced by a number of houses by the OS 6" Provisional Revised Edition of 1944-53 (B2).
Sources (2)
- <1>SBC22801 Bibliographic reference: Pip Brimson. 2001. Buckingham at War. p26.
- <2>SBC22798 Verbal communication: Kim Biddulph (BCC). 2007. Information from historic OS mapping.
Location
| Grid reference | SP 69978 34786 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire |
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Record last edited
Apr 13 2025 7:05PM
