Description:This plan of Brocton Camp was used during the period that huts were being sold and dispersed. Some areas of the camp are already marked as 'cleared'. It shows sewage works, service buildings. This map is a valuable record of how huts were numbered and used, and also includes buildings not recorded on other maps of the period. The map was originally drawn up by George Trollope & Sons and Colls & Sons on 10 August 1916; the annotations date from 1920.
After the War the huts were dismantled and removed from Cannock Chase around 1920. Many of the huts were sold to locals who used them as workshops, houses and even as a village parish hall.
In the autumn of 1914, only months after the start of the First World War, construction of two large camps began on Cannock Chase. The camps (known as Brocton Camp and Rugeley Camp) were constructed with the permission of Lord Lichfield, on whose estate they were being built. The infrastructure for the camps, including the water supply, sewage systems and the roads all had to be created from scratch before work could begin on the huts and other structures.
Map reproduced by kind permission of Mr Stephen Knight.