Monument record MBC44933 - Second World War Royal Air Force camp, Site No.9 (Sewage Disposal Works), RAF Turweston

A Second World War Royal Air Force camp, Site No.9 (Sewage Disposal Works) at RAF Turweston, is visible on historic aerial photographs and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located in a field immediately south of Baker’s Bridge and centred at SP 62715 39653, Site No.9 (Sewage Disposal Works) was one of 8 satellite camps for military personnel serving at adjacent RAF Turweston, an operational wartime military airfield (including Site No.1 (airfield)). The site comprised the sewage disposal equipment, buildings and beds for all the other military facilities associated with the airfield accessed by a road. Aerial photographs taken in 1973 show that the buildings and sewage disposal structure had been demolished by that time, though the concrete road and the buried main sewer pipe remained visible. The roadway remains extant in 1988 but has been demolished on aerial photographs taken in 2019, though cropmarks suggest the sewer may still be buried under the pasture (1-6).