Scheduled MonumentsEnglandMoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas

MoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas

England
List entry 1409120
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1409120
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.34 hectares
Grid reference
ST8513969124
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

MoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas is a Second World War military installation located near Corsham in Wiltshire. The site comprises service and support facilities constructed as part of the extensive underground quarry complex developed by the Ministry of Defence during the 1940s. These functional spaces—kitchens, canteen, laundry, dining and washroom areas—reflect the infrastructure required to support personnel working within the secure subterranean establishment. The facilities demonstrate the substantial logistical provision necessary for sustained military operations conducted from the Corsham underground complex during and beyond the Second World War period.

MoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1409120. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is MoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas?

MoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas is a Second World War military installation located near Corsham in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1409120.

Who is responsible for protecting MoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas?

MoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1409120.

What other scheduled monuments are near MoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including MoD CORSHAM: Prime Minister's Rooms and Operations Rooms (0.1 km), MoD CORSHAM: Quarry Working Areas in West Lung, Spring Quarry (1 km), Three bowl barrows 160m south west of Hatt House (2.6 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under MoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas

MoD CORSHAM: Kitchen, Canteen, Laundry, Dining and Washroom Areas stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.