Birdingbury Prisoner of War Camp
Description of this historic site
The site of a Prisoner of War camp from WWII and the associated administrative buildings at Birdingbury, located 800m southeast of Frankton Church. The evidence is derived from an aerial photograph of 1947.
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Notes about this historic site
1 The site of the Prisoner of War Camp. The administrative buildings lay to the west of the site, and the camp itself to the east.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
My grandad said he remembers some of the camp soldiers coming over to drink in the ‘half moon’ Wolston in about 1946. Without going into too much detail it didn’t end very well for them put it that way.
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