POW Camps in UK - 251 to 500
 

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Please note - all the information that I have about the camps is listed below.

I cannot supply information about individual POW's. If you are a relative of an ex POW held during World War 2, then you would need to contact :
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No. Details

251

East Cams Camp, Portchester Road, Fareham, Hampshire

 

Mentioned in 'From Schoneiche to Alton, a Prisoner of War who stayed'.

252 Abergwili Hospital, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire
253 Mousehold Heath Camp, Norwich, Norfolk
254 Sutton Bridge Camp, Holbeach, Norfolk
255 RAF Camp, Snettisham, Norfolk
256 Willingham House, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire

*15 March 1947 from German POW
257 Pennygillam Camp, Launceston, Cornwall

International Red Cross Inspection Report for November 1945

258

RAF Camp, Seething Brooke, Norfolk

258 Ellough Airfield,  Beccles, Suffolk
259 Boughton Park Camp, (Weekley Camp) Boughton, Northamptonshire - standard camp - [cf 35]
260 Hardwick Heath Camp, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

POW issued magazine last issue February 1948.

261 Ampthill, Bedford, Bedfordshire

Ampthill Park. Italian later German POWs. Reference to German POWs in September 1947 (Bedfordshire archives).

262 RAF Camp, Langar, Nottinghamshire
263 Leckhampton Court Camp, Leckhampton, Gloucestershire

1945 - 1948 German POWs

264 Welton House Camp, Brough, Yorkshire - [cf 136a]
265 Park Farm, Thorney, Northamptonshire
266 Hutted Camp, Langdon Hills, Essex

Brief mention in '
Thresholds of Peace'.
267 Mereworth Castle Camp, Mereworth, Kent
268 Norduck Farm, Aston Abbots, Buckinghamshire

1945 German POWs moved into Nissen huts formerly occupied by Czech soldiers and a tented prisoner of war camp was created along the drive to Norduck Farm. Over 250 prisoners held there.

269 Mansion Potton Camp, Potton, Bedfordshire
270 Luton Airport Camp, nr Luton, Bedfordshire

Probably a camp located near the entrance of the airport as the airport continued to operate as a commercial aerodrome as well as being the base for 264 Fighter Squadron.

271 RAF Airfield, Attleborough, Norfolk
272 Davenport House, Worfield, Shropshire - standard camp

273

Flixton Airfield, Flixton, Suffolk

273a Debach Airfield, Debach, Suffolk

*1947 to Germany
274 Ministry of Works Camp, Oxley Lane, Hatch End, Middlesex - standard camp - [cf 122]
274 Errol Airfield Camp, Errol, Perthshire

*20 September 1946 to Germany

275 Topsite Camp, Thames Ditton, Surrey
275a Kinnell Camp, Friockheim, Arbroath, Angus

276

Nissen (Nisson) Creek, Pinhoe, Exeter, Devon

276 Dymond's Farm, Clyst Honiton, Devon - [cf 76]

277

Recreation Ground, South Littleton, Evesham, Worcestershire

277a Fladbury Golf Course, Fladbury, Worcestershire

Italian and German POWs

278 War Department Camp, Clapham, Bedfordshire

Green Lane?

279 Militia Camp, Yaxley, Huntingdonshire
280 North Lynn Farm Camp, King's Lynn, Norfolk - standard camp
281 Aldborough Camp, Norwich, Norfolk
282 Brissenden Green Camp, Brissenden, Kent
282 Hengherst House, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent - [cf 86a]
283 War Department Camp, Ledsham Hall, Cheshire

284

Swanbridge Camp, Penarth, Glamorganshire

284 Abbey Road Camp, Neath, Glamorganshire
285 Hawkstone Park, Weston, Shropshire - [cf 240]
286 Romford Camp, Romford, Essex
286 Purfleet Camp, Beacon Hill, Purfleet, Essex - [cf 654, 655]
287 Perdiswell Hall, Droitwich Road, Claines, Worcester, Worcestershire

German prisoners from 1944/5 up to 1947 [?].

288 Gilling Camp, Hartforth Grange, Hartforth Lane, Gilling West, North Yorkshire - [cf 4]
289 Lydiard House, Lydiard Millicent, nr Swindon, Wiltshire - [cf 160]

In 1941 Lydiard Park was requisitioned and an American Forces hospital established. It served the 101st American Airborne Division and treated casualties from the D Day landings. Subsequently it became a German prisoner of war camp.

290 Penketh Hostel, South Lane, Bold; Lancashire
291 Kitty Brewster Farm, Blyth, Northumberland
292 Weelsby Camp, Grimsby, Lincolnshire - base camp - [cf 170]
292 Donna Nook Airfield, North Somercotes, Louth, Lincolnshire

In late 1944, the airfield became a German POW Camp with about 3,000 POWs, mostly Poles and Ukrainians from Polish 1st and 2nd Divisions Germany Army captured in France. Many POWs remained after 1945 as displaced persons. The Donna Nook airfield closed in 1945 and the camp in 1948.

292a Kirmington, Caistor, Lincolnshire
293 Carronbridge Camp, Carronbridge, Dumfries

*10 February 1946 to Germany

294

Fisher's Camp, Thedden Grange, Alton, Hampshire

 

Mentioned in 'From Schoneiche to Alton, a Prisoner of War who stayed'.

295 Cattistock Camp, Maiden Newton, Dorset
296 Potter's Hill, High Green, Sheffield, Yorkshire - [cf 127]
296 Ravensfield Park Camp, Rotherham, Yorkshire

*28 June 1948 lettercard from German POW to Berlin
296a Racecourse Camp, Doncaster, Yorkshire - Base camp - [cf 6]
297 [The Hayes] Swanwick Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire - [cf 5, 13, 58, 179]
298 Barony Camp, Parkgate, Dumfries - [cf182]
298 Parkgate, Wirral, Cheshire
299 Godwin Camp, Kilnsea, Hull, East Yorkshire - [cf 563]
300 Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire - Special camp - [cf 20]
402 Lopcombe Corner Camp, Salisbury, Hampshire - base camp
402a Camp C19, The Avenue, Southampton, Hampshire

403

Brockley Camp, Brockley, Somerset - Base camp

404 Ivybridge Camp, Ivybridge, Devon - [cf 187]

405

Barwick House Camp, Barwick, Yeovil, Somerset - base camp

406 Scarnecross Camp, Launceston, Cornwall - base camp
407 Usselby Camp, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire - base camp
408 Penclawdd Camp, Swansea, Glamorganshire - base camp
409 Wolterton Camp, Aylsham, Norfolk
410 Le Marchant Camp, Devizes, Wiltshire - [cf 23]
411 The Wynches Camp, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
412 Langdon Barracks, Dover, Kent

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