Monument record MBC45230 - Temporary ammunition dumps along the road between Adstock and Thornborough, approximately 740m south of Coombs Farm, Thornborough

Temporary ammunition dumps of World War II date are visible on historic aerial photographs as extant buildings and were mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located along the road between Adstock and Thornborough, approximately 740m south of Coombs Farm, Thornborough, and centred at SP 73472 31654. There are eight hutments in this group, the northern four all parallel to the road and the northern four on the west side of the road, the southern hutments are behind the hedge along the road grouped in pairs with the short side to the road. They measure 10x4m and 5x4m in size and are not present on the 1948 aerial photograph. The hutments were temporary and usually made of corrugated metal, covered and camouflaged. There are 13 groups of hutments along the roads between Thornborough and Padbury and Adstock with a possible military camp near Coombs Farm, Padbury, which may have been to support these ammunition dumps (see MBC45223). This is conjectural and the buildings may have been associated with the brickworks to the north of Coombs Farm. (1-4)