| Summary : World War 2 light anti-aircraft training camp built 1939-40, popularly known as Cameron Camp after a local landowner. Surviving elements include a bofors gun emplacement, ammunition store, slit trenches, machine gun positions and sentry box. Sir Mortimer Wheeler and J.B. Perkins, later Director of the British School at Rome, were posted there at the start of the war. After 1945, the camp was turned into a housing estate and finally demolished by 1971. The camp had been built on the site of a Napoleonic Wars target, consisting of two stone walls with a cast iron plate in between. This was demolished when the camp was built. |