Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 2096: summary

Historic building recording at Camp Poultry Farm, Mill Lane, Hatfield Heath, Essex, CM22 7AA:August 2024
by Sarah Veasey

Date report completed: October 2024
Location: Camp Poultry Farm, Mill Lane, Hatfield Heath, Essex, CM22 7AA
Map reference(s): TL 51856 15625
File size: 8,939 kb
Project type: Historic building recording
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Summary. A programme of historic building recording was carried out by Colchester Archaeological Trust at Camp Poultry Farm, Mill Lane, Hatfield Heath, Bishops Stortford, Essex in August 2024. Twenty WWII era huts were recorded, which mostly comprised two types: MoWP standard huts (hollow clay block and concrete construction) and MoWP hall huts (sectional timber construction). During the war, the huts formed part of a prisoner of war camp, known as Camp 116. It was a ‘standard’ camp, with prisoners’ huts to the north and officers’ huts to the south and was set up initially to house Italian prisoners. The camp was decommissioned in 1955 and in 1969 Greenways Eggs moved into huts in the north of the camp.