Monument record MBC44829 - A Second World War roadside ammunition dump, Park Farm, Chackmore to Dadford road.

A Second World War roadside ammunition dump is visible on historic aerial photographs and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located on the N facing side of the Chackmore to Dadford road, about 230 metres E of Park Farm and centred at SP 67751 36002, the ammunition storage area comprises 9 rectangular buildings, each about 5 x 3 metres laid out with 3 buildings long sides parallel with the road and 6 buildings perpendicular to the road over about 75 metres. These portable corrugated iron shelters, or hutments, were usually camouflaged and covered stacks of artillery or small arms ammunition. Roadside storage not only made the ammunition easily accessible but dispersed the risk of a large loss of munitions in one event as a result of a German air raid. A contemporary account of a schoolboy at Stowe School recalls that there were stores of ammunition along the small local roads before D-Day. The munitions storage hutments are present on aerial photographs taken in 1946 but are not visible on aerial photographs taken in 1961, though they were likely to have been demolished by the mid-1950s (1-5).