Monument record MBC44787 - Second World War Royal Air Force camp WAAF Site, Finmere.

A Second World War Royal Air Force camp is visible on historic aerial photographs and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located in fields on the northeast corner of Tingewick Woods and centred at SP 65530 31425, WAAF Site is an accommodation camp for Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) personnel serving at nearby RAF Finmere, comprising a sentry box, officers’ mess, officers’ quarters, ablutions and latrine blocks, sergeants’ quarters, dining mess, airmens’ institute, airwomens’ barracks, accessed by roads and a network of pathways, as well as a WAAF camp sewage works site some 220 metres SSE of the site. On the camp’s southern side is a single brick-built and earth-bermed open-topped blast shelter, as well as two earth-covered air raid shelters on the north side. Between 1947 and 1961, all of the camp buildings have been demolished, though the concrete hut platforms and paths remain visible. The blast shelter also appears to have been demolished, though the earth-covered air raid shelters remain. The seage works remain visible but by 1973 it has been demolished too. On remote sensing data taken in 2019, the road, the two air raid shelters and some of the concrete building platforms appear to remain intact under woodland (1-8).