Monument record MBC47952 - Second World War Royal Air Force accommodation camp Site No 11 (RAF Wescott)

A Second World War Royal Air Force accommodation camp Site No 11 (RAF Wescott) is visible on historic aerial photographs and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located along the W side of the lane leading to Watbridge Farm and centred at SP 72147 15220, aerial photographs taken in 1943 show that the camp at that comprised 15 rectangular military buildings that range in size from 4x3 metres to 19 x 6 metres, accessed by a road and linked by a network of linear paths. At the entrance to the camp is a sentry box (RAF picket post), that leads to officers quarters and latrine, sergeants quarters and latrine, airmens barracks and latrine, along with four earth covered air raid shelters. A linear barbed wire entanglement encloses the camp on the SW facing open field side. Between 1943 and 1947, two further rectangular buildings are constructed in the camp that do not appear on the Air Ministry drawing. All the camp buildings and structure remain extant in 1949, but by 1952 two of the barrack buildings have been demolished. By 1961, all the remaining buildings except one, along with all the pathways and air raid shelters, have been demolished. On aerial photographs taken in 2023, a section of the road and a building built between 1943 and 1947 remain extant, next to which is the concrete building platform of an adjacent building (1-7).