Central Ammunition Depot, Kineton
Ammunition depot.
1 The original depot was planned in 1941 to hold 100,000 tons of ammunition. By the end of the war the depot was holding 137,000 tons in 252 explosive store houses, connected by 90 miles of railway track.
2 A site visit report and sketch plan of an explosive store house at CAD Kineton undertaken in 1999. Only 6 out of the 252 explosive houses remain, many minor buildings and much of the original track layout still exist. A full description of an explosive store house is detailed in this report.
3 Plan of CAD Kineton drawn in 1965.
4 Letter requesting, inter alia, recording of the 6 surviving explosive storage house undertaken in 2
5 Ed Wilson bellieves that the clutch (nuclear bomb site) recorded at RAF Gaydon (MWA8026, 7) may be at this location [ref?].
6 Ref 5 above is incorrect. Bomb store was at Gaydon.
7 Geophysical survey was carried out at the site, as part of planning the ongoing strategy for the site. This recorded a number of areas of magnetic disturbance that, in many cases, could be identified on aerial photography. These features are associated with the 20th century utilisation of the area.
8AP from 1953.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
The map looks accurate to me from memory as I worked both on the road and railway while serving on the camp., also lived in Temple Herdewyke which were the married quarters.
The Nuclear weapons store was not on the airfield but at Lighthorne Heath some distance away.it is now the depository of the National film archive.
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