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Site Name Parish/District County NGR Description Condition References Mapping & AP Comments WWII Comments Designation Associated Files Source Aps EC Curwen air photo of practice trenches in House, Levelled by plough and some areas of scrub but . Assocacited with visible on AP and should survive. Appears to Thundersbarrow Hill Shoreham by Sea East TQ 2250 0850 Shoreham Camp overlie earlier Celtic field system on Google Earth Chasseaud 2014: Fig 2

NMP Plot + Kitchener's Camps at Seaford: A Trenches associated with First World War Landscape on Aerial Seaford Camp Seaford Head TV 4992 9830 Kitchener Army camp. Extant, though overgrown on Google Earth Skinner 2011, pg 28 Photographs by Skinner EH Report 27/2011 Practice trenches on the side of the neck and on top of the neck Appear to be extant. Likely to be associated with Alfriston East Sussex TQ 50918 03129 of the valley. Canadian Infantry Chasseaud 2014, pg 173 & Fig 9 Appear to be extant although some areas Chailey Common Chailey East Sussex TQ 374 208 Maze of practice trenches. overgrown. Chasseaud 2014, pg 175 & Fig 9 Practice trenches shown on aerial Exceat Exceat East Sussex TV 533 982 photographs. Not visible. Chasseaud 2014, pg 176 & Fig 9 Practice trenches shown on aerial Polegate East Sussex TQ 608 047 photographs. Not visible. Chasseaud 2014, pg 180 & Fig 9 Practice trenches including a Appear to be extant although difficult to discern , extensive trench system on between archaeological features and trackways Ashdown Forset Poundgate East Sussex TQ 48804 29028 Poundgate Spur. crossing through forest. Chasseaud 2014, pg 180 & Fig 9 Line of two trenches visible on Google Earth but Chyngton Farm Seaford East Sussex TV 49777 98384 Practice trenches. extensive ploughing across them. Chasseaud 2014, pg 180 Trenches west of camp on air Not visible ‐ field appears to have been heavily Warren Camp East Sussex TQ 462277 479316 photos. ploughed. Chasseaud 2014, pg 175 Trench system on air photos south of Camp Hill, just west of Camp Hill Crowborough East Sussex TQ 46877 28196 . Extant ‐ clear remains visible on Google Earth. Chasseaud 2014, pg 175

Very extensive and dense trench system on north and north‐west Hard to pick out ‐ possible features but also looks Poundgate Spur Poundgate East Sussex TQ 49422 29235 sides of Poundgate Spur. like old tracks, plantation lines Chasseaud 2014, pg 175

Visible on 1947 air photos and Google Earth 2009. Trenches west and south of Very low earthworks still extant on site. Anecdotal Warren Farm (west of Crow & evidence of dug outs that were demolished in the Warren Camp Crowborough East Sussex TQ 49228 29154 Gate pub). 1970s to prevent accidents. Chasseaud 2014, pg 175 Trenches north west of Ashcombe Possible remains visible but extensive plouging Ashcombe House St. Ann Without East Sussex TQ 3881 0978 House. activity. Chasseaud 2014, pg 173 Trenches c.400m west of Ashcombe House St. Ann Without East Sussex TQ 38627 09496 Ashcombe House. Clear earthwork remains. Chasseaud 2014, pg 173 Possible 1914‐1918 trench Possible features in field SE of roundabout but lots excavated ‐ ref probably mis‐ of feature in area, some of which may be geology Pevensey East Sussex TQ 65339 04898 attributed /natural features. Chasseaud 2014, pg 179

RSR digging trenches on Whiligh Possible earthworks in field to NE of B2099 (NW of Wadhurst, East Sussex TQ 65029 30926 Estate ‐ annual training camp. Whiligh House, Shover's Green) Chasseaud 2014, pg 181

Training trenches below Heavily scrubbed but possible traces visible in Stone Hill East Sussex TQ 4548 2904 Duddleswell Road. scrub growth north of Crowborough Road. Chasseaud 2014, pg 181

Area of 'Military Trenches' (practice trench system) running east from top edge of Mossy Bottom to Celtic field system between Southwick Hill & Thundersbarrow. They are close to Celtic field system and not immediately roughly indicated on a map. distinct from them, but visible as distinct features Shoreham Shoreham West Sussex TQ 227 082 Assocacited with Shoreham Camp on 2011 Google Earth Chasseaud 2014, pg 183

Practive trench system on Curwen air pohotos. Associated with Thundersbarrow Shoreham West Sussex TQ 22275 07177 Shoreham Camp Clearly visible as crop marks on Google earth Chasseaud 2014, pg 184

Evidence of trenching activity NMP Plot + Kitchener's Camps at Seaford: A seen on aerial photographs of the First World War Landscape on Aerial Seaford Camp Seaford East Sussex TV 50988 99788 . Very faint cropmarks visible. Skinner 2011, pg 27 Photographs by Skinner EH Report 27/2011

Trencing 2km to the north of NMP Plot + Kitchener's Camps at Seaford: A North of Seaford North Camp on the side a steep Not visible on current Google Earth photography, First World War Landscape on Aerial North Camp Seaford East Sussex TQ 49782 02728 drop. field has been ploughed. Skinner 2011, pg 26 Photographs by Skinner EH Report 27/2011

Trenches in fields beside The NMP Plot + Kitchener's Camps at Seaford: A Norton Farm, approx 2km north NGR is for farm ‐ can't see anything immediately First World War Landscape on Aerial Seaford Camp Seaford East Sussex TQ 47132 01764 west from North Camp. obvious in the surrounding fields. Skinner 2011, pg 27 Photographs by Skinner EH Report 27/2011

Trenches on the fields to the NMP Plot + Kitchener's Camps at Seaford: A north of Newhaven, 4km to the Earthworks visible just off Lewes Road but lots of First World War Landscape on Aerial Seaford Camp Seaford East Sussex TQ 43757 02125 north west of North Camp. scrub Skinner 2011, pg 27 Photographs by Skinner EH Report 27/2011

Trenching located to the east of South Camp shown as eathworks on 1951 aerial photographs. There are two crenulated lines linked by zigzag communication trenches. The dimensions of the NMP Plot + Kitchener's Camps at Seaford: A firing lines are approximately 9' First World War Landscape on Aerial Seaford Camp Seaford East Sussex TV 49929 98329 by 9'. Very faint cropmarks visible. Skinner 2011, pg 27 Photographs by Skinner EH Report 27/2011 First and Second World War practice trenches visible as East Riding of Chalk Lowland & The earthworks on aerial Chalk Lowland and Hull Valley NMP & NMR Re‐use likely ‐ appears to be phasing within the HullValley NMP by Evans, Boutwood, Knight & Beverley Beverley East Yorkshire TA 02373 38611 photography. Not visible on current Google Earth photography. Unique Identifier 1566132 RAF/3G/TUD/UK/1 PART II 5006 14‐DEC‐1945 complex Oakey Report No39‐2012 + NMR Record Sheet Site Name Parish/District County NGR Description Condition References Mapping & AP Comments WWII Comments Designation Associated Files Source Aps

North West Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Survey 2009 & NMR Unique Idenfier 1480790. NWRCZAS NMP ‐ See Fig 14 in report https://www.historicengland.org.uk/images‐ First World War practice trenches Difficult to pick out earthworks on current books/publications/nw‐rczas‐air‐survey‐mapping‐ North West Rapid Coastal Zone Survey 2009 by are visible as cropmarks on air photography. documented in Salford report/ APS's: NMR SD 3133/001 (9224/2170) 25‐ Bacilieri, Knight & Williams + NMR Record Blackpool South Shore Lancashire SD 31319 33532 photographs. Univesrity report (Whittall 2014) JUL‐1984 ‐ see also Pastscape for a full list NMR SD 3133/001 (9224/2170) 25‐JUL‐1984 Sheet + HE Plan National Mapping Programme Mapping of Some areas of trenches extant but some areas Wild Purbeck 2015 by Royall HE Project Bovington Wareham SY 84544 90184 Practice trenches overgrown. Wild Purbeck NMP + Photo from site visit Number 6600 + NMP Plot Recognised on lidar (Coal Board) lidar and HEA photos 3 X AP's + Practice Trenches, Practice trenches comprising ‐ between NMP areas. Investigated on the ground ‐ Burbage, Derbyshire: Archaeological Survey Burbage Edge Buxton Derbyshire SK 0315 7250 shallow ditches and low banks. Extant and clearly visible. Barnatt 2015 PDF pof report available. 2015 by Barnatt 2 X AP's + World War I Practice Trenches, Burbage Edge Practice trenches comprising Burbage, Derbyshire: Archaeological Survey Plantation Buxton Derbyshire SK 0345 7255 shallow ditches and low banks. Some remains still extant. Barnatt 2015 2015 by Barnatt World War I Practice Trenches, Burbage, A single unsilted but un‐backfilled Derbyshire: Archaeological Survey 2015 by Watford Moor Buxton Derbyshire SK 0374 7463 trench. Some remains still visible. Barnatt 2015 Barnatt

Possible site of a practice trench, WWII Army camp and rifle ranges visible on 1940 satelite imagery Caterham Caterham Surrey TQ305572 but no obvious trenches. Partially excavated by Surrey Arch Soc Training trenches across the Halters Hole A67 Tidworth SU 21048 45098 training area. Some remains still extant and visible. plain air photo mapping 3 X AP's + NMP Plot

The monument record for this covers a mix of dispersed WWI and WWII remains: Trenches are at NGR SK 416 270. 1940s RAFs ‐ vis as earthworks on Google Earth (2011 layer, labelled '2016') no recent photos in HE collection, illustrated in th ereport (Fig 28) https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images‐ Derbyshire and Peak District Aggregates books/publications/derbyshire‐peak‐district‐ Assessment Project 2010 by Bacilieri & Knight Zigzag earthwork remains of NMR Unique Identifier 1518757. Derbyshire and nmp/5707_Derbyshire_NMP_Summary_Report_web. + Google Earth AP + NMP Plot + NMR Record Donnington Park Donnington Derbyshire SK 41572 26979 training trenches. Extant ‐ clearly visible in some places. Peak District ALSF pdf/ Sheet Practice trenches associated with Chattendon Barracks Chattendon TQ 74894 72116 Chattendon Barracks. Small amount of remains visible. Hoo Landscape Project Group of practice trenches visible No remains visible but area is heavy with tree Folkestone Folkestone Kent TR 21665 35210 on 1917 photography. cover. NMR Uniquie Identifier 1531564

Cropmarks of trench system discovered by HE funded CC aerial reconnaissance. Partly vis on GE 2009. Discovered after Essex NMP completed. AP's 7 X AP's + Aerial Reconnaissance Project in Hatfield Peveral Boreham Kent TL 766 122 Area of practices trenches. No remains visible. Saunders 2014, pg 7/Essex HER 48299 EX13/05/041 EX13_05_028‐043 16‐JUL‐2013 Aerial Recon Project, Closur Essex: 2012‐2014 by Saunders Project 6452

Cropmarks of trench system discovered by HE funded Essex CC aerial reconnaissance. Discovered after Essex Danbury Galleyend Kent TL 7226 0336 Area of practices trenches. Very clear on AP's Saunders 2014, pg 8 NMP completed. AP's EX13_06_257‐262 18‐JUL_2013 Aerial Recon Project, Closur 6 X AP's Mapped from 1940s and 1960s APs ‐ details available Kelling Heath North Weybourne Norfolk TG 10154 42311 Area of practices trenches. Ephemeral earthworks still visible Norfolk Coast NMP on Norfolk HER NMP Plot

Southern extent isible as soil marks in ploughed Mapped from 1940s and 1960s APs ‐ details available Kelling Heath South Weybourne Norfolk TG 10325 41200 Area of practices trenches. field, northern sector les clear due to scrub Norfolk Coast NMP on Norfolk HER NMP Plot No remains visible, field has been ploughed & tree Mapped from 1940s and 1960s APs ‐ details available Kelling Heath Weybourne Norfolk TG 10162 41212 Area of practices trenches. growth. Norfolk Coast NMP NHER 38414 on Norfolk HER

Suffolk Coast NMP + Report at World War One practice trenches https://historicengland.org.uk/research/research‐ visible as cropmarks on aerial results/recent‐research‐results/east‐of‐ Mapped for Suffolk Coast NMP ‐ seen as cropmarks on Levington Heath Levington Suffolk TM 2463 4006 photographs. No remains visible, field has been ploughed. /suffolk‐coast‐nmp/ 1975 NMR AP's. NMP Plots + Files

NMR Unique Identifier 1458481 North East RCZAS NMP https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images‐ Recorded from cropmarks on 2001 APs ‐ see p38 of books/publications/nercza‐aerial‐ the report ‐ some coastal trenches have WWI origins New Marske North New Marske Redcar & Cleveland NZ 62916 23114 Coastal Defence No remains visible. survey/3929nerczasreportasssurvey.pdf/ but adapted in SWW NMR Record Sheet + NMP Plot

Coastal Defence may also have been used as target during WWI NMR Unique Identifier 1424832 North East New Marske South New Marske Redcar & Cleveland NZ 63673 22881 for trench strafing. No remains visible. RCZAS NMP Extended in WWII NMR Record Sheet + NMP Plot Fragmentary remains of two Oakhampton Okehampton Devon SX 5949 9238 trench systems. No remains visible but area appears overgrown. Dartmoor air mapping photo

EH Research Report 82‐2010 Aerial Survey report Reid & Marriot (2010) Old Oswestry Hillfor AER/1/2004 CMP, for ,Old Oswestry, Perpendicular practice trenches in NMR Unique Identifier 1400540. Marches Upland https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images‐ Selattyn & Gobowen, Shropshire: Analysis of the interior of Old Oswestry air photo mapping. Also Marriott & Read 2010: books/publications/marches‐uplands‐mapping‐project‐ Earthworks by Nicky Smith EH Report No. 82‐ Old Oswestry Oswestry Shropshire SJ 2955 3104 hillfort. Minimal cropmarks visible but not very clear. 2.18, Figs 21‐24 nmp/Marches_Uplands_NMP_Report_web.pdf/ Scheduled 1014899 2010 ALSO Colour Plan & NMR Report

Remains of World War One practice trenches including a front line fire trench, a support or reserve, line and associated NMR Unique Identifier 1387292 MOD Booklet on No NMP ‐ really good on Google Earth ‐ HEA photo Rochester Otterburn NT 835 026 communication trenches. Extant and in good condition. Silloans Otterburn by Brown & Nichol Tim gates 1980 Scheduled 1021025 AP + Google Earth AP + NMR Report Site Name Parish/District County NGR Description Condition References Mapping & AP Comments WWII Comments Designation Associated Files Source Aps

Yorkshire henges and Evirons NMP, NMR Unique Identifier 1517581 See monument record for details (relevant mon numbers listed in report) https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images‐ books/publications/yorkshire‐henges‐and‐ environs‐air‐photo‐mapping‐ 8 X AP's + NMP Plot + NMR Record Sheet + Pratice trenches part of a World project/Yorkshire_Henges_NMP_Summary_Repo Yorkshire Henges and their Environs Air Photo Clotherholme Farm SE2872 7227 War One . Some remains still visible as cropmarks. rt_web.pdf/ Mapping Project 2013 by Deegan

Extensive complex of 20th centruy practice trenches, NMR Unique Identifier 1363071 Stonehenge probably representing more than NMP See Pastscape for details ‐ Mon record East of Larkhill Larkhill Wiltshire SU 14273 44621 one phase of construction. No remains visible. 1363071 NMP Plot + NMR Record Sheet Early 20th century practice NMR Unique Identifier 1363094 Stonehenge trenches S of Larkhill Durrington No remains visible. Some areas overgrown & some NMP See Pastscape for details ‐ Mon record Larkhill Larkhill Wiltshire SU 1284 4350 Down Farm ploughed. 1363071 NMP Plot + NMR Record Sheet

Extensive area of military remains Some remains visible although some areas NMR Unique Identifier 1363004 Stonehenge Larkhill Larkhill Wiltshire SU 1263 4440 including practice trenches. overgrown or ploughed. NMP NMR Record Sheet Some remains visible although some areas have Birchington Birchington‐On‐Sea Kent TR 28380 68971 Area of practices trenches. been extensively ploughed. Kent NMP Small amount of remains extant (at TR 27588 67141) but rest not visible, located within St. Nicholas at Wade St. Nicholas at Wade Kent TR 26984 66868 Area of practices trenches. ploughed fields. Kent NMP

Covered by Norfolk Coastal NMP ‐ firing ranges id'd as The Archaeology of Norfolk’s Coastal Zone WWI (NHER 38315). Trenches on Ingleborough Hill (to 2007 by Albone, Massey & Tremlett EH Project West Runton West Runton Norfolk TG 18531 43174 Area of practices trenches. No remains visible. Norfolk Coast NMP Norfolk HER 38315 SE) and further east suggested WWII. No: 2913 + NMP Plot

Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey For South‐West England ‐ South Coast Dorset 2014 Tidmoor Point Chickerell Dorset SY 64390 78647 World War One practice trenches. Some remains extant although area is overgrown. Dorset SWRCZAS NMP Dorset SWRCZAS NMP ‐ Fig 88 in report by Royall EH Project Number 6673 + NMP Plot

Difficult to discern due to the nature of the dunes Norfolk Coast NMP ‐ mentioned but not illustrated in Winterton Dunes Winterton‐on‐Sea Norfolk TG 49246 20499 World War One practice trenches. and myriad pathways cutting through them Norfolk Coast NMP Norfolk HER 42447 report ‐ good on Google earth NHER Record + Google Earch AP + NMP Plot

Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP/NMR Unique Identifier 1414534 SPTA NMP ‐ No monument HE Archive has Crawford Collection of this area but recording but covered in the RCHME publication. most APs focussed on Yarnbury Camp. Verticals Defence of Britain monument record (141534) probably show the trenches prior to conversion of Some remains visible as soilmarks/earthworks but suggests the Yarnbury tranches relate to WWII most of this area to arable ‐ GE suggests (but doesn’t Yarnbury Yarnbury Wiltshire SU 028 408 World War One trench complex. some areas extensively ploughed. but no supporting evidence provided. prove) most ploughedl level. NMR Record Sheet + NMP Plot Not mapped for NMP (covered by Vale of project). HE APs. Surveyed on the ground for EH Number of World War One Urban Commons project ‐ plans available from HE 11 X AP's + NMR Record Sheet. Image from Al Walmgate Stray York North Yorkshire SE 6157 5003 practice trenches. Some traces still visible (at SE 61454 50454). NMR Unique Identifier 1403885 Archive. Oswald (unclear which set it belongs to)

Fulford Golf Club Number of World War One 7 X AP's + NMR Record Sheet. Image from Al Walmgate Stray York North Yorkshire SE 62059 49912 practice trenches. Remains not visible on current photography. NMR Unique Identifier 1403478 Oswald (unclear which set it belongs to)

Poorly preserved as earthworks, Fulford Golf Club on the practise green of Fulford Walmgate Stray York North Yorkshire SE 621 499 Golf Course SW of the Clubhouse Remains not visible on current photography. NMR Unique Identifier 1403822 Number of World War One Walmgate Stray York North Yorkshire SE 6156 5037 practice trenches. Some traces still visible NMR Unique Identifier 1403479 Low Moor Allotments Number of World War One Remains not visible on current photography Walmgate Stray York North Yorkshire SE 6145 5073 practice trenches. possibly due to tree cover NMR Unique Identifier 1403477 Number of World War One Walmgate Stray York North Yorkshire SE 6154 5029 practice trenches. Some traces still visible NMR Unique Identifier 1403480 Number of World War One Walmgate Stray York North Yorkshire SE 6167 5029 practice trenches. Some traces still visible NMR Unique Identifier 1403481 Number of World War One Walmgate Stray York North Yorkshire SE 6157 5020 practice trenches. Some traces still visible NMR Unique Identifier 1403482 Whittington Barracks Whittington Staffordshire SK 15093 06901 Museum Attraction Extant and very good condition. Historic England data. 5 X AP's + Pastscape Record Sheet Ash Ranges Surrey SU 93074 53711 Earthworks Extant Mark Ludlow DIO Over 13km originally constructed A team of volunteers from the Commons Project Northchurch and , 500m remain. Believed to have and Chiltern Society mapped the location of the Berkhampstead been built by the Inns of Court best preserved trenches. Marked by Interpretation Ashridge Estate Commons Hertfordshire SP 99778 10205 Regiment Board The Chilterns AONB

Extensive networks of trenches including lines of fire trenches, inter‐connecting communication trenches and supporting features. There appear to be two opposing frontages facing off across a no Barham Barham Kent TR 21201 51104 man's land. Extensive well preserved crop/soil marks Great War Forum & Western Front Association

Extensive networks of trenches including lines of fire trenches, inter‐connecting communication 6 X AP's + Google Earth Image + Photo from Beacon Hill Bulford Wiltshire SU 21390 44902 trenches and supporting features. Extensive and well preserved NMR Unique Identifier 24863‐047 Site Visit 1940s APs (Fig 17 in report), some levelled some WWI Practice Trenches are visible noted as earthworks on 2005 lidar. Not clear on GE. in the south of the Common on Possibly remains surviving but not clear on Google Chalk Lowland and Hull Valley NMP see NRHE/pastcape record RAF/3G/TUD/UK/1 PART II Westwood Common Beverley East Yorkshire TA 02408 38689 historic photography Earth NRHE/Pastcape No. 1566132 5006 14‐DEC‐1945 The practice trenches are still visible beyond Drake East Lines Blandford Camp Dorest ST 92595 08371 (East of Sports Pitches) Well preserved earthworks Great War Sites in the UK Website Site Name Parish/District County NGR Description Condition References Mapping & AP Comments WWII Comments Designation Associated Files Source Aps

Leeds Pals took over the Camp in 1914. “The archaeology of the army occupation of the site is as much about their use of the surrounding landscape where we can see Not mapped as beyond remit of Dales NMP but evidence of practice trenches and excellent APs ‐ trenches to west of main camp. NMR Breary Banks Healey North Yorkshire SE 150 801 shooting ranges.” AP's show good survival NRHE/Pastcape No. 1479860 SE 1580/40 (20639/10) 07‐FEB‐2007 6 X AP's+I250 1942 aerial photographs show a possible trench dug into the remains of a barrow. 1946 photographs show that the Lewes Lewes East Sussex TQ 4670 0096 trench had been filled in. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 406176, 1525106, 406181 A complex of concentric shallow trenches, possbily part of a Baslow and Bubnell Baslow Derbyshire SK 27792 71036 command post. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 966099

Group of slit trenches associated Within an area of with a training area. Associated scheduled prehistoric Shoreham Shoreham West Sussex TQ 2290 0840 with Shoreham Camp Some remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 398683 monuments 1015124 Slit trenches within the lower East Brent, terrace of an Iron Age hillfort Brent Knoll Hillfort Sedgemoor ST 3412 5098 used by the Home Guard. Some remains visible through tree growth. NMR Unique Identifier 192590 Zigzag practice trench & weapons Figheldean Figheldean Wiltshire SU 1150 4624 pits Possible remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1351530 Slit trenches, two of which are Okehampton connected by a communication Sourton Tors Hamlets Devon SX 5461 9001 trench. Some earthwork remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1343687 Probable World War One practice Colwich Cannock Chase Staffordshire SK 0075 2035 trench. Not visible, underneath vegetation. NMR Unique Identifier 1578406 Slit trench measuring 2m long by Shaugh Prior South Hams Devon SX 5626 6333 0.6m wide. Possible remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1231389

Appleton Roebuck Selby North Yorkshire SE 556 400 Possible zigzag practice trench. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1212429

A number of slit trenches which measure approximately 2m long by 0.5m wide which have now Walkhampton Walkhampton West Devon SX 55519 74809 been infilled. Traces of remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1310069 Lincoln West Common Lincoln Lincolnshire SK 96029 71887 Small crenellated earthwork. Earthwork remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1376265

Location of former slit trenches. Dispersed around the former site of the military camp: V shaped trenches and zig zags. The majority are probably associated with the rifle ranges. Ross Rural Ross‐On‐Wye Herefordshire SO 6105 2369 No remains visible, field heavily ploughed. NMR Unique Identifier 1380052 Practice trenches associated with the Barracks of The Kings Own They exhibit spoil that appears quite fresh on RAF The Barracks Pontefract West Yorkshire SE 44595 21193 Yorkshire Light Infantry. No remains visible, area now built over. NMR Unique Identifier 1316875 vertical air photographs from 1948. Possibly WWII in date from the AP 1948 evidence

Network of trenches overlooking Wacker Quay and protecting the Earthworks surviving up to 1m deep but under Possibly WWII in origin but form suggests WW1 and Scraesdon Fort Antony Cornwall SX 39004 55020 west flank of Scraesdon fort dense woodland. Archaeology survey for DIO Part surveyed then reusued in WWII Evidence of World War One practice trenches, formed by Scraesdon Fort Antony Cornwall SX 3942 5502 irregular ditches. No remains, field ploughed. NMR Unique Identifier 436663

Extensive World War One practice trenches, which comprise isolated Substantial earthworks visible. Surveyed and part and nucleated groups of 'V' and excavated in 2007 and 2008 by the Coquetdale Cartington Northumberland NU 049 034 box trenches. Community Archaeology Group NMR Unique Identifier 1452243 (HER N2872) Elements of WWII re‐use 5 X AP's Shaugh Prior South Hams Devon SX 5841 6372 A small slit trench. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1447852 Trenches associated with military Shavercombe Tor South Hams Devon SX 594 661 training. Some remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1405454 Amesbury Amesbury Wiltshire SU 1304 4310 Slit trench within a gunpost. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1363175 Zigzag trench following the sinuous course of an enclosure Ardley Ardley Oxfordshire SP 5277 2612 boundary. No remains visible, field in arable use. NMR Unique Identifier 1378647 NMR 21274/12 SP 5226/23 02‐JUL‐2001

Just outside NMP area. GE shows well preserved training trenches at Hillyards Plantation/Iron Mills. Selattyn And Zigzag and crenallated practice NMR Unique Identifier 66907 Field Observation NMR SJ 3133/1‐7 02/01/1995 (Clwd Powys Trust Gobowen Gobowen Shropshire SJ 31607 33650 trenches. Earthworks visible. (Visual Assessment) 1979 photos check copyright) and OS.65.224 136‐7 21.9.65 Lidar Printout Group of zigzag slit trenches associated with a loop of Old Romney Shepway Kent TR 0233 2322 concrete road. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 462842 Zigzag slit trenches visible as earthworks on aerial Birchington Thanet Kent TR 278 693 photography. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 467045 NMP Plot Two short sections of slit trench Birchington Thanet Kent TR 2848 6944 on sea front. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 467046 NMP Plot Short length of slit trench Birchington Thanet Kent TR 2871 6963 seaward side of putting green No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 467047 NMP Plot

Birchington Thanet Kent TR 2912 6996 Length of slit trench on cliff top. Remains clearly visible as cropmarks. NMR Unique Identifier 467048 NMP Plot

St. Nicholas at Wade Thanet Kent TR 268 669 Extensive slit trench system No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 467049 NMP Plot Extensive system of practice Some remains visible, although vegetation covers Bulford Bulford Wiltshire SU 1930 4460 trenches. some of the area. NMR Unique Identifier 915450 Kirkby Ireleth Subberthwaite Cumbria SD 257 877 Probable slit trenches. Possible remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 925643 Swadlincote Swadlincote Derbyshire SK 2951 1811 Probable slit trenches. Possible remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 928217 Site Name Parish/District County NGR Description Condition References Mapping & AP Comments WWII Comments Designation Associated Files Source Aps

Location of slit trenches assoc with enclosure and gun emplacements ‐ May be part of Tutbury Tutbury Staffordshire SK 1902 2802 an assault course for training. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 928786

Broome Heath Ditchingham Norfolk TM 3445 9130 Location of military earthworks. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 933098

No remains visible, area around NGR under Greenham Greenham West Berkshire SU 4901 6539 Probable slit trenches. vegetation and surrounding area is golf course. NMR Unique Identifier 1065037 Witchampton Witchampton Dorset ST 9561 0488 Probable practice trenches. Possible remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1079949 Peter Tavy Willsworthy Devon SX 5553 8154 Line of slit trenches. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1159584 Slit trenches remaining as minor Peter Tavy Willsworthy Devon SX 538 831 earthworks. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1160092

Strensall With Slit trenches seen as earthworks Towthorpe York North Yorkshire SE 6480 6164 on aerial photography. Possible remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1185181 Group of slit trenches on narrow spur of land E of the Manaton to Islington Haytor Devon SX 7725 7770 Haytor road. Possibly remains visible, hard to distinguish. NMR Unique Identifier 1221535 Ashbury Ashbury Oxfordshire SU 28785 80906 Remains of five slit trenches. Some remains clearly visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1251242 Probably WWII Perham Down Military Trench Buried remains but 2016 excavation shwos them System Shipton Bellinger Hampshire SU 24 46 Extensive military trench system. to be in good condition NMR Unique Identifier 1266947 Chapperton Down Extensive military trench system Military Trench visible to the south of the house System Heytesbury Hampshire ST 995 477 alongside the A36 Still visible as earthworks NMR Unique Identifier 1266949 Knook Down Military trench system, covering Military Trench c.1.5ha lies on the high ground on System Knook Wiltshire ST 965 455 Knook Down. Remains clearly visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1266953 Orcheston Down Military Trench System Orcheston Wiltshire SU 0844 4695 Military practice trench system. No remains visible, in a wooded area. NMR Unique Identifier 1266957 Some re‐use in WWII likely Warren Down Market Lavington Wiltshire SU 043 518 Military trench system. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1266959 Slay Down Rushall Wiltshire SU 085 509 Military trenches. Remains clearly visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1266968 None appear to be extant on the latest 1993 Hightown Hightown Sefton SD 30306 02409 Series of practice trenches. No remains, field is ploughed. NMR Unique Identifier 1476666 Ordnance Survey vertical photography. None appear to be extant on the latest 1993 Ince Blundell Hightown Sefton SD 29466 04751 Series of practice trenches. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1476708 Ordnance Survey vertical photography. Probable WWII re‐use Formby Formby Sefton SD 28063 05519 Series of practice trenches. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1479079 NMP Plot + to the Short length of crenellated Remains visible though under some scrub cover. River Ouse Aerial Investigation & Mapping practice trench associated with a Part still in pasture so may survive as low Report 2013 Carpenter, Barber & Small EH Ewe Down Cuckmere East Sussex TV 51085 99774 military training site. earthworks. NMR Unique Identifier 1528084 Report No. 22‐2013 Earthwork remains of a zigzag trench which dates to either of Likely to be WWII emergency for staff Woolwich Common Woolwich Greater TQ 42850 77609 the World Wars. Remains clearly visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1537161 working at the Signals Experimental Establishment System of zigzag practice Orcheston Orcheston Wiltshire SU 0519 4618 trenches. Remains faintly visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1349465 Practice slit trenches dating to Orcheston Orcheston Wiltshire SU 0614 4639 both World Wars. No remains visible, part of the area is wooded. NMR Unique Identifier 1349535 Some re‐use likely Shrewton Shrewton Wiltshire SU 0900 4640 Location of practice trenches. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1349691

Shrewton Shrewton Wiltshire SU 0911 4800 Location of practice trenches. No remains visible, part of the area is wooded. NMR Unique Identifier 1349730 Possible remains visible as chalk marks on Google Orcheston Orcheston Wiltshire SU 0855 4980 2 sets of zig‐zag practice trenches. Earth NMR Unique Identifier 1350279 Enford Enford Wiltshire SU 1062 4953 Military practice trenches. Possible remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1351504 Slit trenches visible on aerial Bulford Camp Milston Wiltshire SU 1865 4690 photography. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1352824 Location of military practice Netheravon Netheravon Wiltshire SU 1434 4773 trenches. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1353084 Location of slit trenches Netheravon Netheravon Wiltshire SU 1637 4902 associated with airfield. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1353499 Complex of slit trenches Fittleton Fittleton Wiltshire SU 1640 4960 associated with airfield. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1353502 Practice trenches visible as earthworks on aerial Durrington Durrington Wiltshire SU 1076 4512 photography. No remains visible, part of the area is wooded. NMR Unique Identifier 1353840 Slit trenches visible on aerial photography associated with Bulford Bulford Wiltshire SU 1735 4285 Bulford Camp. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1358964 Slit trenches associated with Bulford Bulford Wiltshire SU 1783 4302 Bulford Camp. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1358972 Early 20th century practice trenches associated with Bulford Bulford Bulford Wiltshire SU 1796 4328 Camp. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1358974 Practice trenches associated with Bulford Bulford Wiltshire SU 1787 4328 Bulford Camp. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1358978 Shaugh Prior Shaugh Prior Devon SX 5842 6374 Location of a slit trench. Possible remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1359848

Complex of military trenches Bulford Bulford Wiltshire SU 1937 4268 associated with Bulford Camp. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1360131

Complex of military trenches Amesbury Amesbury Wiltshire SU 1818 4257 assocaited with Bulfrod Camp. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1360173

Complex of military trenches Bulford Bulford Wiltshire SU 1970 4427 associated with Bulfrod Camp. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1360488 Four complexes of military trenches associated with Bulford Bulford Bulford Wiltshire SU 1842 4490 Camp. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1360635 Location of practice trenches which were part of an extensive Durrington Durrington Wiltshire SU 1263 4440 military area. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1363004 Extensive complex of practice Durrington Durrington Wiltshire SU 1420 4465 trenches. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1363071 Site Name Parish/District County NGR Description Condition References Mapping & AP Comments WWII Comments Designation Associated Files Source Aps

Durrington Durrington Wiltshire SU 1397 4357 Small group of practice trenches. Remains not visible, area is wooded. NMR Unique Identifier 1363089 Early 20th century practice Durrington Durrington Wiltshire SU 1284 4350 trenches. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1363094 Small complex of practice Durrington Durrington Wiltshire SU 1227 4457 trenches. Possible earthworks visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1363118 Small complex of practice Durrington Durrington Wiltshire SU 1071 4482 trenches. Possible remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1363120 Slit trenches in a zigzag Durrington Durrington Wiltshire SU 1124 4427 arrangement. Remains visible in field. NMR Unique Identifier 1363125 Remains of part of World War Rochester Otterburn Northumberland NT 835 026 One practice trenches. Very well preserved remains. NMR Unique Identifier 1387292 Scheduled 1021025 Practice trenches which date to Figheldean Figheldean Wiltshire SU 1285 4585 World War One. Faint traces of earthworks visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1353629 Site of slit trenches thought to Six Acre Hill East Runton Norfolk TG 2005 4197 date to World War One. Some remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1417096 Location of World War One Cherry Hinton Cambridge Cambridgeshire TL 4850 5560 practice trenches. Remains not visible, area is wooded. NMR Unique Identifier 1407326 EH recce in 2002 Cropmarks AP NMR 21608/28 7 X AP's Bulford Camp Practice Trenches Bulford Wiltshire SU 1745 4435 Area of dispersed trenches. Some remains visible within field. NMR Unique Identifier 1360643 Slit trenches likely dating to the Possibly some remains visible but area is now a Newcastle‐uon‐Tyne Gosforth Newcastle‐uon‐Tyne NZ 24867 69035 20th century. golf course. NMR Unique Identifier 1433714 Zigzag features visible as Wroughton Swindon Wiltshire SU 155 803 cropmarks. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1403104 Portsmouth Cosham Portsmouth SU 647 059 Location of a slit trench. No remains, area has been built upoon. NMR Unique Identifier 1421339

Widdrington Village Widdrington Northumberland NZ 2820 9500 Location of a slit trench. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1421582 Pershore Pershore Worcestershire SO 9521 4495 Location of a slit trench. No remains visible, area is heavily wooded. NMR Unique Identifier 1423460 Two groups of slit trenches which may date to either of the World Kelham Kelkham Nottinghamshire SK 771 563 Wars. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1355347 Possible WWII date Small complex of practice N of Stonehenge Amesbury Wiltshire SU 1226 4290 trenches. Ephemeral remains visible but may be tank tracks NMR Unique Identifier 1363186 NMR Record Sheet Location of a slit trench or Amesbury Amesbury Wiltshire SU 1370 4293 gunpost. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1542657 Site of a crenellated practice No remains visible, area is thickly covered by Rough Shaw Cooling Medway TQ 75473 73998 trench. vegetation. NMR Unique Identifier 1548208 Possible World War One zigzag Deangate Ridge Cooling Medway TQ 76413 74538 trenches. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1549858 Appears to be extant on satellite imagery but Spring Bottom Hill Nottingdon Dorset SY 7406 8237 & Fire Trenches overgrown Plan of Redoubt & Fire Trenches Recorded on Staffs NMP as being very small but seen Probable First World War practice as earthworks ‐ NGR puts it in a golf course so not trenches are visible as earthworks NMR Unique Identifier 1580098 RAF/542/98 seen on GE but record mentions earthworks seen on Ingestre Park Ingestre Staffordshire SJ 9767 2445 on air photographs. No remains visible, area now a golf course. 0111 15‐DEC‐1954 2010 APs St. Cutherbert St. Cutherbert Two groups of World War One without without Cumbria NY 3980 5266 practice trenches. Remains visible in field. NMR Unique Identifier 1593021

Probable cropmarks of World War Not covered by NMP ‐ Features on Whittington Heath Whittington Heath Whittington Shropshire SK 1517 0724 One practice trenches. Clearly Visible on AP's NMR Unique Identifier 1597500 show well on HEA APs and Google Earth 2003 4 X AP's Site of a World War One practice Area has been heavily ploughed ‐ may be visible as New Marske Inland Redcar Redcar & Cleveland NZ 62916 23114 trench. crop marks NMR Unique Identifier 1465034 NMP Plot Location of a World War One practice trench visible as Whitley Bay North Tyneside North Tyneside NZ 34887 74253 earthworks. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1465034 Series of Coastal World War One Possible remains visible as differential Whitley Bay North Tyneside North Tyneside NZ 35132 73324 practice trenches. growth/scorch marks NMR Unique Identifier 1465155 Sections of World War One North Tyneside Cullercoats North Tyneside NZ 36440 70792 practice trenches. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1465261 Practice trench which zigzags for 122m with a further trenches Seaton‐Sluice Northumberland Northumberland NZ 31977 77328 branching off. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1465464 A practice trench which comprises a number of straight No remains visible, part of the area has been built Seaton‐Sluice Northumberland Northumberland NZ 32735 77182 and zigzag sections. upon. NMR Unique Identifier 1465577 Practice trench visible on aerial Longhoughton Boulmer Northumberland NU 26607 12645 photographs. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1470976 Practice trench visible on aerial Beadnell Seahouses Northumberland NU 22410 31028 photographs. Earthwork remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1471517 Practice trench which zigzags for Blandford Camp Dorset ST 9327 0857 70m. No remains visible, area covered by vegetation. NMR Unique Identifier 1478879 Practice trench which zigzags for Blandford Camp Tarrant Monkton Dorset ST 9334 0865 76m. No remains visible, area covered by vegetation. NMR Unique Identifier 1478883 Practice trench which zigzags for Blandford Camp Tarrant Monkton Dorset ST 9326 0879 200m. No remains visible, area covered by vegetation. NMR Unique Identifier 1478884

System of practice trenches, most Leighton Harrogate North Yorkshire SE 150 801 of which are the crenellated form. Earthwork remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1479860 Practice trenches which zigzag Launceston over an area approximately 80m Common Dorset ST 9499 1089 by 20m. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1480766 Practice trench including RE exercises, possibly in Chatham Darland Kent advance of Messines. Area has been developed. Historic England ‐ Practice trench which extends for Tarrant Monkton Tarrant Monkton Dorset ST 9310 0833 39m. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1480973 Practice trench formed by two parallel ditches which zigzag for Tarrant Launceston Tarrant Launceston Dorset ST 9494 1103 approximately 39m. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1481299

Possible slit trench which dates to Tarrant Launceston Tarrant Launceston Dorset ST 9532 1102 either of the World Wars. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1481411

Possible slit trench which dates to Tarrant Launceston Tarrant Launceston Dorset ST 9546 1106 either of the World Wars. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1481413 Earthworks of a 155m practice Upavon Hill Upavon Wiltshire SU 15008 55568 trench. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1482455 Site Name Parish/District County NGR Description Condition References Mapping & AP Comments WWII Comments Designation Associated Files Source Aps Blackpool North Shore Lancashire SD 31609 39353 Site of a practice trench. No remains, has been built upon. NMR Unique Identifier 1482880 Number of practice trenches East Hill East Sussex TQ 83173 09901 dating to both World Wars. Possible banks to the S of the NGR NMR Unique Identifier 1483542 Probable World War One practice Middleton Middleton Lancashire SD 41184 58218 trench. Possible earthworks to the NE of the NGR NMR Unique Identifier 1484414 Covered by NWRCZAS NMP but nothing idenitified as WWI ‐ plenty WWII stuff (HAA and camp) and ridge Walney Island Barrow‐in‐Furness Cumbria SD 16973 71770 Site of practice trenches. Nothing identified as WWI NWRCZAS NMP NMR Unique Identifier 1488706 and furrow visible. Nothing identified as WWI Possible practice trench with associated building or firing Coln St. Aldwyns Cotwold Gloucestershire SP 15633 06001 platform. No remains visible, field has been ploughed. NMR Unique Identifier 1489816 Redmires First World War Training Remains of a training area 11 X AP's + The Tyneside Pioneers Article + Area Hallam Moors Sheffield SK 255 859 including practice trenches. Remains clearly visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1515916 SM 1417488 Scheduling Record North Stainley With There are slight potential earthworks in the field of Sleningford Harrogate North Yorkshire SE 29472 72672 Location of a practice trench. the NGR NMR Unique Identifier 1517493

Fort Hill Newhaven East Sussex TV 43756 99980 Location of a practice trench. Possible remains visible along the field boundary NMR Unique Identifier 1522957 NMP Plot + South Downs Beachy Head to the River Ouse Aerial Investigation & Mapping Potential surviving earthworks in northern part of Report 2013 Carpenter, Barber & Small EH Ewe Down Cuckmere East Sussex TV 51062 99885 Site of practice trenches. the complex NMR Unique Identifier 1528015 Report No. 22‐2013

Not identified by NMP specifically ‐ extensive WWII training/defensive areas (incl minefields adjacent to the river) + WWI trenches/training in the area Cuckmere Valley Cuckmere Haven East Sussex TV 52217 97582 Site of crenellated trenches. No remains visible, area covered by vegetation. NMR Unique Identifier 1528233 mapped ‐ the latter mostly on Seaford side.

Not identified by NMP specifically ‐ extensive WWII training/defensive areas (incl minefields adjacent to the river) + WWI trenches/training in the area Cuckmere Valley Cuckmere Haven East Sussex TV 52266 97513 Site of crenellated trenches. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1528234 mapped ‐ the latter mostly on Seaford side.

Sandgate Moorhall Foord Kent TR 21665 35210 Group of practice trenches. No remains visible, area covered by vegetation. NMR Unique Identifier 1531564 NMP Plot + NMR Record Sheet

High Halstow High Halstow Medway TQ 78446 75955 Site of a possible practice trench. No remains, has been built upon. NMR Unique Identifier 1535037 landscape project: mapping and source APs available. Other possible trenches recorded relate to defence sites. Anecdotal evidence (local resident) Practice trenches associated with suggest that area may have been used for post WWII Frindsbury Extra Chattenden Medway TQ 74894 72116 Chattendon Barracks. Some remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1545095 training. AP + 1916 OS Map with annotation 3 X AP's + NMR Record Sheets + Plan + Kent's 20th Century Military & Civil Defences Pt 2 ‐ Hoo St. Werburgh Chattenden Medway TQ 75901 71608 World War One practice area. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1546221 Medway by Smith 3 X AP's + NMR Record Sheets + Plan + Kent's 20th Century Military & Civil Defences Pt 2 ‐ Hoo St. Werburgh Chattenden Medway TQ 75883 71637 Possible practice fieldwork. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1546255 Medway by Smith 3 X AP's + NMR Record Sheets + Plan + Kent's 20th Century Military & Civil Defences Pt 2 ‐ Hoo St. Werburgh Chattenden Medway TQ 75976 71533 Possible practice fieldwork. No remains visible, area is woodland. NMR Unique Identifier 1546275 Medway by Smith Short length of zigzag trench 3 X AP's + NMR Record Sheets + Plan + Kent's which is either World War One or 20th Century Military & Civil Defences Pt 2 ‐ Hoo St. Werburgh Chattenden Medway TQ 75755 71481 Two in date. No remains visible, area is woodland. NMR Unique Identifier 1546366 Medway by Smith 3 X AP's + NMR Record Sheets + Plan + Kent's Short length of zigzag trench and 20th Century Military & Civil Defences Pt 2 ‐ Hoo St. Werburgh Chattenden Medway TQ 76106 71587 a seperate slit trench. No remains visible, area is woodland. NMR Unique Identifier 1546367 Medway by Smith Frindsbury Extra Chattenden Medway TQ 74895 72166 System of practice trenches. Some remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1547562 1916 OS Map with annotation Some earthworks visible but heavy scrub means Seaford Head Seaford East Sussex TV 49932 98327 Site of a practice trench system. that the full extent is not discernable. NMR Unique Identifier 1427799

Deangate Ridge Cooling Medway TQ 76532 74443 Possible zigzag practice trench. No remains visible, field has been ploughed. NMR Unique Identifier 1549853 Filey Hunmanby North Yorkshire TA 1260 7684 Site of a slit trench. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1418779 Whitley Bay North Tyneside North Tyneside NZ 34990 74817 Location of a practice trench. No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1464922 Could be part of the GHQ Green Line which formed a loop around the Bristol area and served as the outer Crenellated slit trenches which defence against attack from the south. The Bath and North East may of World War One or Two earthworks were infilled sometime between 1945 and Hang Wood Midford Hill Somerset ST 770 594 date No remains visible. NMR Unique Identifier 1429407 1950. RAF 106G/UK/1415 3309 15‐APR‐1946 CCC SU2176/5 (5196/03141) 01‐MAY‐1934 CCC SU2076/2 Liddington Environs project. Email to HE confirms (5196/09837) 15‐MAY‐1934 CCC SU2177/4 Chiseldon Chiseldon Wiltshire SU 2086 7936 Location of training trenches. No remains visible, field has been ploughed. risk of UXOs on site (5196/09838) 15‐MAY‐1934. NMP Plot

Just outside Hadrian's Wall NMP area. Well in the ATZ Possible location of practice for Newcastle some APs (T Gates). Nothing on GE trenches which have been No remains visible. Evidence from farmer ‐ any 1940s layer ‐ airport not censored, date of photos Brunton Hazlerigg Tyne & Wear NZ 218 715 ploughed out. trenches now ploughed. Tyne and Wear HER 5030 difficult to tell (has a generic date)

Temporary and wiring Lloyd's Signal scheme identified as part of Main building now a Youth Hostel Station Portland Dorset SY 6775 6913 Portland Harbour Defences Not known Map supplied by Historic England http://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/portland Annotated Plan of Blockhouse

Potential Landing Points which 2 X Maps Showing Potential Landing Points & Falmouth Area Falmouth Cornwall SW 81394 33173 may have been fortified Not known Map supplied by Historic England Further survey required Safe Harbours Mostly infilled but limited excavation suggests , Trenches and mine crater blown good survival. Crater partly infilled and location of Bustard Inn Orcheston Down Wiltshire SU 0834 4672 in Anzac exercise 5/11/16 an active badger sett. Monash papers AWM RCDIG0000616 Crawfords +HEA obliques Salisbury Plain, Location of extensive practice Buried remains that survive well, based on limited SPTA NMP; Brown and Osgood 2008; AWM25 Bustard Inn Orcheston Down Wiltshire SU 0825 4731 trench system. trial excavations by Defence Estates. 473‐1‐4 Crawfords +HEA obliques AP + NMP Plot Welch, C, (1997) An investigation of a trench model at the WWI camp at Rugeley, Scale model of trenches used in Environmental Planning Unit Research Report Cannock Chase Cannock Chase Staffordshire SK 00283 16817 instruction Good earthwork survival. Number 2, Staffs CC Scheduled 1021326

Brown & Nichol (2013) Messines Model, Cannock Scale model of Messines, used in Good, conserved and buried in accordance with HE Chase, Staffordshire: Excavation& Survey, 2013, Cannock Chase Cannock Chase Staffordshire SJ 98049 19102 instruction management advice. excavation report for Staffs CC. Site Name Parish/District County NGR Description Condition References Mapping & AP Comments WWII Comments Designation Associated Files Source Aps

Excavations undertaken on Old Acre Valley by NML 2008 & Several seasons of survey and Full size trenches and scale Geophysics by University of Birmingham in the Cannock Chase Cannock Chase Staffordshire SK 015 203 training models. Extant earthworks ‐ survive well on the ground 1990s by Kincey Staffordshire NMP Some trenches mapped for Staffs NMP ‐ Oakedge Park One SM 1 X Oblique of Half‐Scale No remains visible, field has been ploughed. RAF 106G/UK/1415 3309 15‐APR‐1946 CCC SU2176/5 Ploughed level but some survive as sub‐surface (5196/03141) 01‐MAY‐1934 CCC SU2076/2 remains seen as cropmarks (e.g. a section vis on Liddington Environs project. Email to HE (5196/09837) 15‐MAY‐1934 CCC SU2177/4 Chiseldon Chiseldon Wiltshire SU 2131 7669 Location of training trenches. 2007 GE layer). confirms risk of UXOs on site (5196/09838) 15‐MAY‐1934. NMP Plot

Eastchurch East End Kent TQ 9950 7162 Blockhouse No longer visible Historic mapping supplied by Historic England Further survey required Architects Plans of Blockhouse Extensive remains extant in woodland including trenching and ranges, including butts and firing Not mapped for Notts NMP prob as in woods and/or Clipstone Camp Edwinstowe Nottinghamshire SK 614 635 Location of a practice trench. points. NMR Unique Identifier 1418745 out of scope

No NMP for London yet ‐ GE '1940s' layer shows extensive allotments and a WWII camp at the north‐ east end of the park. Aerofilms 1935 ‐ two distant Buried remains visible on air photos but condition views. HE Reconnaissance 2006 recorded parchmarks ‐ Clapham Common Bexley Heath Greater London TQ 486 748 Location of a practice trench. unknown. GLHER potential for more in archive. NGR needs checking, plots i 4 X AP's

Compass Cove Little Dartmouth Devon SX 884 494 Location of a practice trench. No remains visible, area is covered by vegetation. RCZAS NMP Nothing found during S Devon RCZAS NMP survey

‘Military Training Earthworks in Crowthorne Wood Berkshire: A survey by the Royal Believed to be Napoleonic & 19th Grid ref is for discovery centre ‐ area is heavily Commission on the Historical Monuments of Crowthorne Wood Bracknell Berkshire SU 87531 65815 Century in date wooded so trenches not visible on google earth England’. Archaeological Journal 152, 422‐40 Not covered by NMP

Training trenches associated with Machine Gun Corps based at Information on sketch plans supplied by Machine Harlaxton Harlaxton Lincolnshire SK 8965 3312 Belton Park, Grantham Ploughed but visible on some satellite imagery Gun Corps History Project/Old Comrades Assoc.

South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment SERCZAS ‐ could be WWII? GE 1940s layer shows Programme Report 2011 Wessex Archaeology Dover Dover Kent TR 3493 4409 Location of defensive trenches. Unknown Survey and visible on satellite imagery some of them Possibly WWII Report ref.: 71330.01

Two Camps at Woodcote Park, Epsom, which served Universities and Public Schools Brigade. Considered highly likely to have had backdoor training areas but no remains visible and the golf course and post‐war development may have http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.u Epsom Epsom Surrey TQ 2012 5885 obliterated them. Unknown k/WoodcoteParkCamp.html

St Margaret's at Possible location of training Possibly preserved within hedgeline which does Swingate Cliffe Kent TR 33663 43511 trenches. not conform to surrounding field boundaries

Trenches on tank training map (from Wayne Cocroft) centred on North Stow Farm with main lines to the east. GE 1940s layer too poor quality to tell if remains there are definitely WWI, whole area now in confinerous planatations. This area is to be covered by a Breckland NMP project (just started contact [email protected] ) and lidar for this may turn up evidence. Area to north west (Berner's Heath, Shravedell Heath, Horn Heath, Weather Heath) Location of trenches in a tank seem to be focus of Second World War training etc ‐ Elvedon North Stowe Suffolk TL 8244 7435 training area. No remains visible, area is woodland. Suffok HER WSW 101 good on GE May be WWII 2 X EH Maps NGR for central part in No remains visible, area is woodland. Could be Wrotham Vigo Kent TQ 65775 61954 Whitehorse Wood part of a WWII inland Stopline May be WWII Lidar Image and Kent CC Plan Eastern Command Bombing School Possible location of training https://www.flickr.com/photos/flat4/sets/72157 GE (1999) shows some soilmarks and suggest Godstone Woldingham Surrey TQ 363 536 trenches. No remains visible. 628248435151/ earthworks in trees of Whitefield plantation

South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Wessex Archaeology) ‐ plate 9 below Browndon Camp https://www.historicengland.org.uk/images‐ Partly covered by trial NMP (Herts) but nothing Gosport Lee‐On‐The‐Solent Hampshire SZ 583 996 Location of practice trenches. Earthwork remains visible. books/publications/serczas‐phase1‐nmp/ mapped 2 X 1951 AP's

Significant areas of training trenches, including some Good earthwork survival in places but elsewhere RAF Halton Halton Buckinghamshire SP 87866 09230 reconstructed by RAF trainees. levelled and returned to plough. Possible location of training Orwell Park Ipswich Suffolk TM 20546 39698 trenches. Possible Trench System visible on satellite imagery Some mapped by NMP

Partly excavated 2014 as part of the Defence of Good 1940s layer on GE, and subsequent layers could Substantial anti‐invasion scheme: Swale Research Project: Combination of Trenches be used for a basic assessment. Any further work The Battle of Britain that Never Was: A Tour of 11 miles (18km) of trenches were and Gun Emplacements. Substantial and extensive The Battle of Britain that Never Was' by Anstree should review all APs in national/local collections (HE Swale's Forgotten Great War Defences by Isle of Sheppey Isle of Sheppey Kent TQ 974 702 constructed remians surviving & Smith Archive, CUCAP, Kent CC) Anstee & Smith + Period Plan of Defences Blockhouse to protect eastern Severn Bristol Somerset ST 54529 85443 end of Severn Tunnel Unknown 2 X Period Plans + Hand written notes

Temporary airstrip constructed as part of a D‐Day preparation. Trenches were later excavated across the runway to prevent it being used by other aircraft. Slit trenches and other military features are also visible. RAF 106G/UK 1430 3157 16‐APR‐1946 Kelling Heath Holt Norfolk TG 121 410 (NHER TG 1040B) © NMAS. No remains visible. Norfolk Coast NMP WWII Norfolk NMP Site Name Parish/District County NGR Description Condition References Mapping & AP Comments WWII Comments Designation Associated Files Source Aps

Exhibition trenches dug in Kensington Garden for the edification of the home front. These were clean, dry, and well furnished, with straight sides and neatly aligned. R. E. Vernede writes his wife from the real trenches that a friend of his has just returned from viewing the set of ideal ones. He "found he had never seen anything at all like it before." And Wilfred Owen calls the Kensington Gardens Grid Ref is for centre of park ‐ photographic History of Kensington: Trenches in Kensington trenches "the laughing stock of evidence suggests they were on the periphery of Aerial photography evidence Trenches in Gardens' by Goldsmith The Kensington Kensington Gardens Kensington London TQ 26465 80244 the army." the park ‐ possibly masked by trees today.F248 Kensington Gardens By Sarah Goldsmith Magazine Nov 2013, p8 + Image from article King Barrow Ridge Larkhill Wiltshire SU 13124 43326 Location of trenches. Identified by geophysics. NMP Plot

Nothing mapped for NMP ‐ review of APs could turn up new info though as NMP completed in the 1990s and new info may be available on AP's accessioned since then. Geological marks (?with some potential Area used for Tank testing: Little Earthworks may have originally been associated non‐geol) showing as cropmarks on Google Earth South Common Lincoln Lincolnshire SK 97542 69395 Willie (prototype tank). with quarrying and utilised for tank testing (2007) in arable to the SE of common.

In woodland so no AP cover, nor covered by any NMP ‐ location looks to be between Environment Agency lidar cover ‐although southern and eastern fringes of Marlow Common Marlow Buckinghamshire SU 82158 86303 Location of trenches. No remains visible, area is woodland. NRHE Number 1416012 the wood are covered.

Anti‐invasion trenches mapped for Kent NMP (cropmarks). sources not recorded as part of project but trenches vis as cropmarks on 1940s and recent HE Archive AP's. NB use of the area in WWII ‐ and gun batteries etc on GE. Kent NMP mapped cropmarks only but there is a dotted line that seems to indicate the area. Also various trenches (cropmarks) mapped for Kent NMP to the west between St Nicholas Wade, Monkton and Birchington RAFs and 1970s/80s obliques. GE shows soilmarks of Manston Kent TR 342 684 Location of trenches. Remains visible in field. Noted during site visit. , Thanet some.

Dartmoor air photo mapping ‐ hand drawn ‐ parts also survyed on the ground by RCHME/EH in 2003. See also plan of trenches (described ?incorrectly as Hartor No remains visible. Monument record includes Hill in caption but Rowtor in text) in P newman's EH Okehampton Camp Okehampton Devon SX 5949 9238 Location of trenches. field visit info from RCHME investigator. NRHE Number 1396475 publication ‐ The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor NMR Record Sheet + NMP Plot

March 1917 practice trenches were dug by the local volunteer Wallingford force on the Kinecroft in Company Order & BBC article Trenches, Kinecroft Wallingford Oxfordshire SU 60444 89174 Wallingford at "the far end" This area appears to be wooded today www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01x0kqy

Group of five features on Port Meadow, visible as crop marks on the valley floor: Probable modem military features, including timber Port Meadow Oxford Common Oxfordshire SP 49426 08361 slots for huts and latrine pits. NGR is for the centre of Port Meadow. Thames Valley NMP.

Porton Down Porton Wiltshire SU 22210 36635 Gas warfare experimental trench. Some earthwork remains visible. HEA recce photographs. Scheduled 1016818 6 X AP's No NMP, area is playing fields so earthwork survival Trenches possibly related to unlikely ‐ potential for in the woods? Review of Barossa Common Sandhurst Berkshire SU 872 614 training. No remains visible. historic APs might be useful. Seaford Seaford Head Sussex TV 499 983 Site of a training trench. Some earthwork remains visible. Sussex AP report Seaford Seaford Head Sussex TV 508 984 Site of a training trench. No remains visible. Sussex AP report NMP Plot + South Downs Beachy Head to the River Ouse Aerial Investigation & Mapping Report 2013 Carpenter, Barber & Small EH Ewe Down Cuckmere Sussex TV 509 997 Location of a practice trench. No remains visible ‐ area has been ploughed Possible WWII Reuse Report No. 22‐2013

Shoreham Shoreham Kent TQ 5252 6214 Possible training trenches Satellite imagery shows potential trench complex The area around the school has been heavily landscaped and new buildings constructed across Shrewsbury School Lower Common Shropshire SJ 48444 12147 the sit in recent years Photographic evidence 3 X Period Photographs Traces still visible but most appear to have been ploughed level ‐ buried remains visible as Snap Farm Aldbourne Wiltshire SU 213 768 Site of practice trench. cropmarks on GE Mapped by a student placement. 4 X AP's + NMP Plot infilled trenches visble of WWII Sompting Abbots air photos and modern satelitte School Sompting West Sussex TQ 1652 0569 imagery Some remains visble as scorch marks in pasture Worthing‐ NMP Good from Google Earth Trenches visible of WWII air 2 X Google Earth AP + B&W AP RAF 1951

NMP and Rolfe (2007) Victoria Street/ Field Style Location of practice trench Defences on the east side of town, May be WWII ‐ Road, Southwold, Desk Based Assessment for Area mapped for NMP butRolfe suggests all remains Victoria Street/ Field Style Road, Southwold Southwold Southwold Suffolk TR 1056 7725 associated with known units. listed in Rolfe Suffolk County Council WWII, thouggh this may refelct reuse. DBA 2007 by Rolfe Trenches likely to be close 2 X Excerpts from OS Maps + Image of WWI Spurn Point Humberside East Yorkshire TA 39736 10745 defence to the batteries Earthworks visible on satellite imagery TNA WO78/4312 Blockhouse Earthworks still extant on the ground and part of Stanhoe Stanhoe Norfolk TF 79732 34568 Site of a training trench. an attraction for a campsite http://dreamyhollowcampsite.weebly.com/

Birmingham: The Hidden History by M. Hodder + Photos of Birmingham Pals digging trenches available on the Birmingham History Forum REF Park used for training by the https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.ph Birmingham City Battalion of the Scale version for training survives as ephemeral p?threads/the‐birmingham‐pals‐in‐the‐great‐ Sutton Park Sutton Coldfield West Midlands SP095967 Royal Warwickshire Regiment. earthworks on the ground. war.45663/ Grid Ref is for park ‐ not individual features Scheduled 1020420 Site Name Parish/District County NGR Description Condition References Mapping & AP Comments WWII Comments Designation Associated Files Source Aps Trenches associated with CEF Recorded on recent HEA APs and mapped by Tolsford Cheriton Kent TR 1651 3835 based at Shorncliffe. Visible on 1940 AP (Google Earth) Kent NMP

Tolsford by Cheriton Cheriton Kent TR 155 382 Location of a training trench. Earthworks still extant HEA AP's & mapped by NMP 5 X AP's Not covered by Kent NMP‐ HE AP cover =Aerofilms but nothing obviously WWI (some stuff on edge of woods but could be WWII), ditto on Google Earth (incl the 1940s layer). Potential for remians surviving in the Trottiscliffe Trottiscliffe Kent TQ 63402 60416 Site of a training trench Visible as soil marks on satellite imagery woods. London Defence Ring‐ Ref to location: "The trenches, as at Woldingham, were a good climb up from the village" (see Kent NGR is for the centre of nothing visible on http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?t Otford Twitton Surrey TQ 52848 59350 History Forum) satellite imagery for the surrounding area opic=18690.0 NGR is for the centre of Woldingham nothing London Defence Ring Dug by the visible on satellite imagery for the surrounding Woldingham Woldingham Surrey TQ 37209 55904 United Arts Volunteer Rifles area IWM photo IWM Photo Covered by Avebury WHS NMP ‐ WWI features relate Possible training trenches related to the airfield ‐ WWI photos also show airfield/camp Yatesbury Yatesbury Wiltshire SU 0652 7128 to the airfield. Ploughed Avebury WHS NMP but not aware of any fieldworks

Greek key trenches to the east of the barracks, including various Shown as soilmarks on 1945 air photos but now need more location info ‐ may have APs but not Yeovil Barracks Yeovil Somerset ST 5307 1741 works on different alignments built over by housing Somerset HER 1945 AP covered by NMP Alnwick Northumberland NU 17955 12389 Location of a training trench. Visible on AP's 3 X AP's+I272 Castle Donington South Holland Leicestershire SK 416 270 Location of a training trench. Earthwork remains clearly visible. NRHE Number 1518757 Hawthorn Corner Romney Kent TR 021 232 Location of a training trench. No remains visible. Kent NMP Ingestre Brancote Staffordshire SJ 9767 2445 Site of a training trench. No remains, area is now a golf course.

https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images‐ Visible as a meandering water books/publications/serczas‐phase1‐ course on the 3rd , 4th , 5th , 7th Visible as on the ground and in wet weather nmp/Wessex_Archaeology_SERCZAS_NMP_repor Canterbury Golf Club Canterbury Kent TR 17198 57908 and 9th fairways. they fill with water. NGR is for the Club House t_web.pdf/ Site of Divisional Training Camp with assocaited training trench systems within the surrounding Nolonger extant due to development and road Shoreham Camp Shoreham West Susex TQ 221 062 landscape building Chassaud 2014, 183

Practice trenches dug on Brandon Hill by Bristol troops from the Gloucestershire Regiment prior to their departure for France in Not visible on satellite imagery. Partially excavated Geophysical Report for Brandon Hill, Bristol 2015 Geophysical Report for Brandon Hill, Bristol Brandon Hill Bristol Somerset ST 57813 72844 November 1915 by the University of Bristol. By Rowe 2015 By Rowe

Firing ranges mapped for NMP (one now in Golf course, other under housing) ‐ prob Victorian to Second World War. RCZAS fieldwork should be Fleetwood Fleetwood Lancashire SD 314 475 Possible Practice Trenches Earthworks survive on spur within Golf Course NMR Unique Identifier 1483550 checked. GE shows potential but not noted by NMP.

Hawthorne Corner Romney Kent TR 021 232 Possible Practice Trenches Visible on GE 1940s layer but probably levelled Kent NMP Visible on GE 1940s layer but probably levelled

Opposed systems of trenches with no‐man's‐land. Pillbox suggests reuse in WWII for anti invasion defence. The system may have originated as coastal defence, potecting the south flank of Fort Rowner in WW1 and 1951 AP, info per Rob Harper (Gosport BC) been adapted for training later in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk‐england‐ WWII pillbox suggests reuse as coastal defences in Browndown Gosport Hampshire SZ 58208 99693 or post‐war. Extant earthworks ‐ survive well on the ground hampshire‐26471922 CBA HFL Site No 1 Visible on satellite imagery WWII

Extensive network of trenches west of the military cemetery. Extent suggests training but they may also have had a function protecting the west flank of St Martin's Plain. Although WW1 in form there is also a WWII pillbox Extant, though overgrown in places and aletered in Wessex Archaeology (2006) Shotncliffe Redoubt, Pillbox adjacent and overlooking trenches, suggesting Shorncliffe Shorncliffe Kent TR 19037 35319 above, suggesting reuse in WWII. others by adaptation as BMX circuit. Time Team Report 62502.01 Not visibile of satellite as too overgrown. resuse.

Shallow earthworks of trenches running up to and along the cliffe overlooking the Channel coast and the east end of the Royal Military Canal. The trenches are around a and may have been dug around this, using it as a redoubt. The hight point of the hill to the east is occupied by the Shorncliffe Redoubt that would have also Mostly infilled though visible as shallow Wessex Archaeology (2006) Shotncliffe Redoubt, Shorncliffe Shorncliffe Kent TR 18987 35118 afforded support. earthworks in woodland. Time Team Report 62502.01 Not visibile of satellite aswithin woodland. Possible WWII reuse due to strategic location Parch marks of trenches on 1947 http://bedfordhighlanders.blogspot.co.uk/ RAF Bedford Bedford Bedfordshire TL 03052 49407 AP. Infilled and under sports pitch CPE ‐2249 07‐09‐1947 Visible on AP used by NMP

Crop marks of a range of features, Visible of satellite imagery and AP up to and including Bedford Bedford Bedfordshire TL 04912 47080 including fire trenches. Levelled and infilled NMR 21678‐13 2002 2006