List of POW camps in Britain

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Prisoner of War Camps in Britain during WWII

Part of Lists of Prisoner-of-War Camps section in the Prisoner-of-war camp article.

The following list is an attempt to create the most complete list of British POW Camps in World War II.

Camp Number	Camp Name	Location	Near	County
1	Grizedale Hall	Hawkshead	Ambleside	Cumbria
2	Toft Hall	Knutsford	.	Cheshire
4	Scraptoft Gilling Camp	.	Thurnby Richmond	Leicestershire North Yorkshire
5	UNKNOWN	.	.	Northern Ireland
6	UNKNOWN Long Marston UNKNOWN	.	Stratford-upon-Avon Doncaster	Warwickshire West Yorkshire
7	Winter Quarters	Ascot	Windsor	Berkshire
8	Mile House Sheriffhales	Oswestry Shifnal	Shrewsbury Telford	Shropshire Shropshire
9	Kempton Park Racecourse UNKNOWN	Quorn	Sunbury Loughborough	Middlesex Leicestershire
10	Gosford Camp	Market Hall	.	County Armagh
11	Island Farm Trent Park Camp	Southgate	Bridgend Barnet	Glamorgan Middlesex
12	Elmfield Camp UNKNOWN	Gilford Bury	Portadown Manchester	Craigavon Lancashire
13	Shap Wells Hotel	Shap	Penrith	Westmorland
14	Bun Camp	Doonfot	Ayr	Ayrshire
15	Donaldson's College	West Coates	Edinburgh	Midlothian
16	Gosford Camp	Aberlady	Longniddry	East Lothian
17	Lodge Moor Camp	Lodge Moor	Sheffield	Yorkshire
18	Featherstone Camp	Featherstone Castle	Haltwhistle	Northumberland
19	Happendon Camp	Douglas	Lanarkshire	Scotland
20	Bickham Camp	Yelverton	Tavistock	Devon
21	Comrie	.	Crieff	Perthshire
22	Pennylands Camp	Cummnock	Ayr	Ayrshire
23	The Marchent Camp		Devizes Sudbury Shrewsbury	Wiltshire Derbyshire Shropshire
24	Knutsford	.	.	Cheshire
25	Lodge Farm	Farncombe, Down, Lambourne	berkshire & leamington (GCP)	Warwickshire
30	Aldershot (GPC)	.	Aldershot	Hampshire
34	Warebank Camp	.	Kirkwall	Orkney
40	Somerhill Camp	Tonbridge	Pembury	Kent
41	Ganger Camp	.	Romsey	Hampshire
44	Goathurst Camp	Goathurst	Bridgwater	Somerset
65	Setley Plain	.	Brockenhurst	Hampshire
83	Eden Camp	Ryton	Malton	North Yorkshire
107	Penleigh Camp	Wells	.	Somerset
115	White Cross Camp	St Columb Major	.	Cornwall
116	High Hall Camp	Epping	Essex
165	Watten Camp	.	Thurso	Caithness
155	Hornby Hall Camp	Brougham	Penrith	Cumbria
251	East Cams	Portchester Road	Fareham	Hampshire
294	Fisher's Camp	Thedden Grange	Alton	Hampshire
402	Southampton	Highfield	Southampton	Hampshire
403	Brockley Camp	Brockley	Bristol	Somerset
405	Barwick House	Barwick	Yeovil	Somerset
614	Stoneham Camp	.	Eastleigh	Hampshire
663	Park House Camp "A"	Shipton Bellinger	Tidworth	Hampshire
665	Cross Keys Camp	Norton Fitzwarren	Taunton	Somerset
666	Stoberry Park		Wells	Somerset
668	Aliwal Barracks	.	North Tidworth	Hampshire
672	Popham	Micheldever	Winchester	Hampshire
675	Hiltingury Road	Chandler's Ford	Eastleigh	Hampshire
676	Puckride Camp	Fleet Road	Aldershot	Hampshire
693	Whitchurch	.	Andover	Hampshire
1000	Oakhangers Camp	Bordon	Farnham	Hampshire
1006	Willems Barracks	.	Aldershot	Hampshire
1019	Aldershot	.	Farnham	Hampshire

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[edit] External links

• [1]ISLAND FARM PRISONER OF WAR CAMP:198
• [2]for a map of locations of POW camps in Great Britain, and a list of them (more complete than the Wiki list above)
• [3] Prisoner of War Camps 1939-1948, Roger JC Thomas, 2003, English Heritage (accessed September 18, 2007).

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