RAF Grovely Wood Ammunition Depot. USAAF Station 592

One of the largest mixed woodlands in southern Wiltshire, situated on a chalk ridge above the River Wylye. It is recognised for its nature conservation importance through designation as a County Wildlife Site. Among the species found here is the Purple Emperor butterfly.
Grovely Wood, was the largest royal forest in Wiltshire and the only one mentioned in Doomsday. Originally occupying about twenty square miles extending west and south from Great Wishford, the forest had been reduced by 1603 to fourteen coppices covering approximately 7.5 square miles. At this time, William Herbert, 3rd earl of Pembroke, whose country seat was Wilton House, near the southeast corner of the forest, held the wood in socage. The inhabitants of Great Wishford and Barford St. Martin had ancient rights to the use of the forest, including the right to gather boughs, take fallen wood, and fell some timber each year. They celebrated these rights annually on Whit Tuesday until 1660, when ‘Oak Apple Day’ (29 May) became the day of the celebration. In accordance with their custom, the people gathered boughs in the forest, which they then carried in procession to Salisbury; there they entered the cathedral chanting ‘Grovely, Grovely, Grovely’ or ‘Grovely, Grovely, and all Grovely’.

You can park on the east or west end of the wood and walk right through it, Best to go in the winter when the leaves are down. The hut bases, the ammunition storage bays all show up.

Eastern and barrack area.

Emergency Water Supply.

Centre section.

A.R.S. 50 Air raid shelter for 50 people.

A.R.S. 50 Air raid shelter for 50 people.

Cleared storage area.

The eastern end of the Store.
Where Igloo storage was used.

Another Emergency Water Supply.

No. 11 M.U. reply to a request.

This could be an Igloo type store.
This is I believe at Savernake Forest and its Livens gas storage.