Hutted camps in the United Kingdom

[alg304]

Hello-

 I have been a forum member for several years but this is my first post.

 

 I have been attempting to compile a list of hutted (or hutment) camps in the United Kingdom. Can any forum members add any locations they are aware of and correct my misidentifications?

 

Thanks

 

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[BIFFO]

Northampton race course both hutted and tented,Im a volunteer researcher for the 53rd when they gathered here, unfortunately we couldn't find photos of the camp only horse stables and that was from afar

 

[Moonraker]

Welcome to the Forum. The list of Wiltshire camps in your link is almost complete. My comments:

 

You could place "Draycot" in brackets after "Chisledon" as this was the name initially and briefly given to the hutments.

 

The structures at Fargo formed a hospital, rather than barracks accommodation.

 

Huts (of crude design and construction) were erected on the Hamilton pre-war camping-site (between Rollestone and Lark Hill), but Hamilton Camp seems to have lost its specific identity partway through the war.

 

Park House, though part of the Salisbury Plain complex of hutted camps, was actually just in Hampshire.

 

If one includes Porton in the list, one might also consider Devizes Wireless Station. In both cases the huts were not for troops in "ordinary" traIning but mainly to accommodate specialist staff (and students acquiring specialist skills.)

 

Sandhill was normally rendered as "Sand Hill". (And I prefer "Lark Hill" to "Larkhill" during the Great War period but do not press the point too much.)

 

Of course there was also hutted accommodation at airfields, and a few army huts at Wilton and Warminster railway stations and some other minor localities.

 

Moonraker

 

 

[alg304]

Biffo-

Thanks for the tip on Northampton Race Course. I had not come across that one before. I'll add it to my list.

 

Moonraker-

 Thanks for clearing up some of the confusion I have as to some of the locations I have found. I did come across (I think it was on this forum) a list of airfields. I will have to see if I can find it again. I think there was another one that listed hospitals.

 

[David Porter]

Welcome to the Forum,

 

Excellent list, I can only add the following minor notes.

For Essex, I think Reed Hall was also known as Lexden Hutments, Colchester and the ones at Great Bentley were at Brook Farm and were known as such.

 

[TTracer44]

Do you have a location for the Stamford one and Cherryhinton is that Peterborough.

Den

[alg304]

 I think Cherryhinton was in Cambridge. The only other reference I have found for Cherryhinton is as a hospital from about 1917. I'll have to see what else I can find for Stamford.

 

 I have also found references in some cases to locations that were variously referred to as camps or hutments. The site you mention at Reed Hall was one of them. Was there any distinction between "camps" and "hutments" or were the terms used interchangeably?

[seaJane]

Cherry Hinton is indeed on the outskirts of Cambridge. Searching for it in the two-word form may bring up other results.

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https://capturingcambridge.org/queen-ediths/cherry-hinton-road/cherry-hinton-wwi-hospital/

[David Porter]

35 minutes ago, alg304 said:

The site you mention at Reed Hall was one of them.

 

I've seen it mentioned as Lexden Hutments, Colchester but Command at Reed Hall, Colchester.

Also hutments seem to be distinguished from camps which could be all tents.

[Martin Lepley]

Hi there,

 

Hutments were built on Canvey Island, Essex, England. 

[George Rayner]

I believe there was one in Suffolk at Hoxne may be under Oakley Park. The Lincolnshires trained there pre war and I think that it was used during 1914/18/ I will check for references

 

George

[Moonraker]

No mention in https://www.hoxnehistory.org.uk/Military.php

 

Googling produces a suggestion that "Canadian Scottish" troops were there during the Great War and that D Squadron of the Lincolnshire Yeomanry had its mess there - perhaps in the grounds. Quite a few large estates made their grounds available to yeomanry units for summer camps before the war.

 

But I won't steal any more of George's thunder.

 

Moonraker

[Terry_Reeves]

Withnoe, Devon.  Second  Battalion Jamaica Regimentt were in the hutted camp there for a while, as was  the Special Brigade Depot from mid-1916 to late 1917. The huts were sold off at the end of the war, some being allocated to Plymouth Council to allow underprivileged  local children to have a holiday.

 

TR