Priestley, S. and Tizzard, A. (2014). Standing Building Recording Gallagher Estates Former WWII Radio Station at Upper Weald Calverton Lane Calverton, Milton Keynes. Border Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1045843. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Standing Building Recording Gallagher Estates Former WWII Radio Station at Upper Weald Calverton Lane Calverton, Milton Keynes
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Series:		 Border Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Border Archaeology (BA) was instructed by Gallagher Estates to carry out a programme of Standing Building Recording to RCHME Level 2 on a complex of buildings currently used as livestock shelters, originally forming part of a former Second World War radio station located on the S edge of a pasture field to the E of Calverton Lane, approximately 150m NE of the village of Upper Weald, Milton Keynes. The Upper Weald station appears to have functioned as a control centre transmitting and receiving communications from SOE and MI6/SIS agents overseas, mainly in France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark. The radio station was established in 1940 and further expanded in 1944. The station was eventually dismantled at some point between April and October 1946. The building recording programme surveyed the extant brick built structure with a sloping concrete roof (designated as Buildings A and B), which appears primarily to have been a generator building but could possibly have included an office/storeroom (at its SE end). Immediately NE of the brick structure were the concrete foundations for a prefabricated hut (Building D) which probably also housed a second generator (based on the evidence for an extant concrete machine base). To the E of this building was the foundation pad for a free-standing toilet or wash-house block (Building E). To the SE of the brick built structure, two further rectangular foundation plinths for prefabricated huts were identified and recorded (Buildings F and H); it is likely that these represent the remains of the wireless station and an accommodation/recreation room for the wireless operators. The upstanding remains of a small brick built shed associated with one of the huts was also surveyed (Building G), it is possible that it may have served as a store room for batteries associated with the wireless station.
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Author:		 S Priestley
A Tizzard
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Publisher:		 Border Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Milton Keynes SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2014
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Site: Former WWII Radio Station, Calverton Lane
County: Buckinghamshire
District: Milton Keynes
Parish: CALVERTON
Country: England
Grid Reference: 480345, 237817 (Easting, Northing)
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20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) COMMUNICATION BUILDING (Monus)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) GENERATOR HOUSE (Monument Type England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) RADIO STATION (Monument Type England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) TOILET (Monument Type England)
COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING (Monument Type England)
BUILDING SURVEY (Event)
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OASIS Id: borderar1-218234
OBIB: BA1421MKUWRS
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Note:		 Bound report in A4, 33 pages.
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Created Date:		 12 Feb 2018