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HHER Number:6992
Type of record:Building
Name:AIRCRAFT DISPERSAL PEN, ALLEN'S GREEN AIRFIELD NW

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Grid Reference:TL 459 182
Map Sheet:TL41NE
Parish:High Wych, East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire
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Monument Types

  • AIR RAID SHELTER (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
  • BLAST PEN (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
  • DISPERSAL (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE: WW2 Air Defences,medieval moat & ph earthworks in and surrounding Mathams Wood
  • Area of Archaeological Significance
  • Scheduled Ancient Monument 32451

Full description

Remains of an aircraft dispersal pen. Brick-built and sunk into a earth bank which is contemporary with the structure. Purpose uncertain, but 1960 OS 1:10000 map shows that an airfield track or taxiway ran directly to it. Only the inner right-angle survives, in which two narrow brick-lined recesses are visible<1>; these are shown on the 1:2500 OS map <1>. A 1944 plan of the airfield shows an aircraft dispersal pen located here <2, 4>. (See also [6997, 6998]).


<1> Stewart Bryant (HCC), Information, Site visit with KAT (HCC), March 1996 (Verbal communication). SHT5002.


<2> Nash, F & Tyler, S Hertfordshire County Council, Allen's Green (RAF Sawbridgeworth) SMR Updates November 2001 (Bibliographic reference). SHT7275.


<3> Scheduled Monument description, 18.3.04 (Scheduling record). SHT9990.


<4> EH schedule proposal folder, Plans of airfield, RAF photos etc (Bibliographic reference). SHT3140.

Sources and further reading

<1>Verbal communication: Stewart Bryant (HCC). Information. Site visit with KAT (HCC), March 1996.
<2>Bibliographic reference: Nash, F & Tyler, S Hertfordshire County Council, Allen's Green (RAF Sawbridgeworth) SMR Updates November 2001.
<3>Scheduling record: Scheduled Monument description. 18.3.04.
<4>Bibliographic reference: EH schedule proposal folder. Plans of airfield, RAF photos etc.

Related records

10133Part of: ALLEN'S GREEN (SAWBRIDGEWORTH) AERODROME, HIGH WYCH (Monument)

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