Moorby · Revesby · Lincolnshire — Grid ref TF 2981 6378
Three lives in one plot of Lincolnshire ground.
A wartime prisoner-of-war camp. A working poultry farm. Now a 20,000 sq ft wood-processing mill. GMG Bio-Fuels turns British hardwood into clean-burning fuel on the site of Camp 79, sold exclusively through Green Flame Fuel.
All GMG wood is sold via greenflamefuel.co.uk
20,000 sq ft
purpose‑built processing hall on site
100%
of GMG wood sold through Green Flame Fuel
Three Eras
camp, farm and mill, one footprint
1942 → 1948
Camp 79, Moorby
Camp 79 was built as a standard-type prisoner-of-war camp: 36 huts inside a wired compound, with guard housing and offices at the front. It opened in 1942–43 to hold Italian prisoners working the surrounding farms, then converted to a German working camp from April 1945.
By December 1946 the camp — together with satellite hostels scattered across the Wolds at Bilsby, Tumby, Skegness and Tattershall — held close to 2,950 men. Behind the wire, camp life was its own small society: a printing press ran the camp newspaper, Die Lagerzeitung; an orchestra and a 300-seat theatre performed regularly; the library held some 3,000 books. Camp 79 closed in 1948.
Source: The National Archives, FO 939/159 · Prisoner of War Camps 1939–1948, R.J.C. Thomas, English Heritage (2003)
1948 → recent
A working poultry farm
When the wire came down, this ground went back to work on the land. What was Camp 79 became a poultry farm, raising birds on the same Lincolnshire fields for the decades that followed — a long, quiet chapter between the war and the wood.
This is the era we know the least about. If you have memories or photographs from the poultry farm years, we’d love to hear from you.
1948 → recent
GMG Bio-fuels
Now the same footprint holds a new 20,000 sq ft processing hall, purpose-built to dry, cut and grade British hardwood at scale. Every log that leaves this yard is sold through Green Flame Fuel, taking Lincolnshire wood from this ground straight to hearths across the county.
the facility
Built for work.
GMG’s new mill replaces open fields with a purpose-built processing hall, engineered around one job: turning sustainably sourced hardwood into fuel that’s ready to burn.
20,000 sq ft hall
Purpose-built processing facility on the Camp 79 footprint.
Kiln Dried
Dried to a consistent moisture content for a cleaner, hotter burn.
Lincolnshire Sourced
Hardwood drawn from woodland local to the mill.
Cut, graded & packed on site
From round wood to ready-to-order net, all under one roof.
Where to buy
Every log we cut is sold through Green Flame Fuel.
Kiln-dried logs, charcoal and kindling. Order online for delivery across Lincolnshire.
the facility
Built for work.
GMG Bio-Fuels sits on the old Camp 79 site at Moorby, near Revesby, about 7km south-east of Horncastle, Lincolnshire.
Grid ref TF 2981 6378
GMG Bio-Fuels processes the wood. Green Flame Fuel gets it to your door.
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