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'''Prees Health Camp''' was a training base for the British Army. It opened in 1915 and had a capacity for approximately 30,000 troops for the purpose of training in trench warfare.<ref name="wikiprees">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilstock_Airfield Tilstock Airfield] Wikipedia: the free encyclopaedia. Accessed 26 August, 2016.</ref> During wartime the site developed to include a supplies store, a railway depot and one mile of branch line from Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway.<ref name="wikiprees" /> After the armistice the site was downgraded, however, the British Government maintained a presence for the continued purpose of training army personnel.<ref name="wikiprees" />
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==Newspaper articles==
:–Cheshire Observer, [[12 December]] 1914
▲With a knowledge of Storekeeping, are required to fill vacancies as temporary Barrack Wardens and Barrack Labourers for hutments of New Army Divisions at Kimnel Park, near Rhyl, Oswestry, Preese Heath, near Whitchurch and Ludlow.|source=Cheshire Observer|date=12 December 1914}}
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:–Whitchurch Herald, [[16 January]] 1915
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Prees Heath, close to Whitchurch, is now covered with long lines of wooden buildings which have been put up by an army of joiners. Already there are hundreds of hutments marking where the heath was on each side of the main road to Shrewsbury. These hutments are about 50 feet long and about 20 feet deep. Joiners and labourers are employed from all over the country in putting them up. It is stated that in addition to the thousands of infantry who will be accommodated on Prees Heath, batteries of artillery will be quartered in Bettisfield Park. The building of the huts finds employment for workmen at remunerative rates. Joiners are paid 9½d. an hour and labourers up to 7d. an hour. It is expected that the camp will be completed four or five weeks hence.
:–Chester Chronicle, [[6 February]] 1915
▲Prees Heath, close to Whitchurch, is now covered with long lines of wooden buildings which have been put up by an army of joiners. Already there are hundreds of hutments marking where the heath was on each side of the main road to Shrewsbury. These hutments are about 50 feet long and about 20 feet deep. Joiners and labourers are employed from all over the country in putting them up. It is stated that in addition to the thousands of infantry who will be accommodated on Prees Heath, batteries of artillery will be quartered in Bettisfield Park. The building of the huts finds employment for workmen at remunerative rates. Joiners are paid 9½d. an hour and labourers up to 7d. an hour. It is expected that the camp will be completed four or five weeks hence.|source=Chester Chronicle|date=6 February 1915}}
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