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List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom

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This is an incomplete list of Prisoner of War (POW) Camps located in the United Kingdom during World War II.[1]

German POWs in England were graded as follows: "Grade A (white) were considered anti-Nazi; Grade B (grey) had less clear feelings and were considered not as reliable as the 'whites'; Grade C (black) had probable Nazi leanings; Grade C+ (also Black) were deemed ardent Nazis."

Some camps were classed as General Processing Camps (abbreviated GPC in the table).

There was a large amount of renaming, renumbering and reuse of camp numbers during World War II. The reason for this is unknown but speculation has it that it was to confuse the Axis powers in the event of any attempted breakouts after any potential Paratrooper attack or invasion. Examples:
No. 286 Purfleet Camp, Beacon Hill, Purfleet, Essex
No. 654 Purfleet Camp, No.4 Transit Camp, Beacon Hill, Purfleet, Essex
No. 655 Purfleet Camp, No.1 Transit Camp, Beacon Hill, Purfleet, Essex[citation needed]

List

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Camp Number Camp Name Near County
1 Woodfield Farm Camp Churchdown Gloucestershire
1 Grizedale Hall Grizedale, Satterthwaite Cumbria
2 Toft Hall Toft, Knutsford Cheshire
2 Woodhouselee Camp Milton Bridge, Penicuik Midlothian
2 Glen Mill Wellyhole Street, Oldham Lancashire
3 Balhary Camp Balhary, Alyth Perthshire
4 Scraptoft Thurnby Leicestershire
4 Gilling Camp Hartforth Lane, Gilling, Richmond North Yorkshire
4 Windlestone Hall Rushyford County Durham
5 Monrush Cookstown County Tyrone Northern Ireland
6 Racecourse Camp Doncaster South Yorkshire
6 Long Marston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
6 Glenbranter Glenbranter Argyll
6a Ashton Court Bower Ashton Somerset
7 Winter Quarters Camp Ascot Berkshire
8 Mile House Shrewsbury Road, Oswestry, Shrewsbury Shropshire
8 Warth Mills Bury Lancashire
9 Kempton Park Racecourse Sunbury Middlesex
9 Quorn Camp Quorn, Loughborough Leicestershire
9 Warth Mills Bury Lancashire
10 Gosford Camp Gosford Castle, Markethill County Armagh
10 Cockfosters Camp Barnet London
10 Stamford Camp Empingham Road, Stamford Lincolnshire
11 Gilford Elmfield, Craigavon, Portadown County Armagh
11 Racecourse Camp Knavesmire, York North Yorkshire
11a Trent Park Camp Bramley Road, Enfield, London Middlesex
11a Rayner's Lane Harrow-on-the Hill, London Middlesex
12 Elmfield Camp Gilford, Portadown Armagh
12 Donaldson's College West Coates, Edinburgh Midlothian
12a Warth Mills Bury Lancashire
13 Shap Wells Hotel Shap, Penrith Cumbria
13 The Hayes Swanwick Derbyshire
14 Bun Camp Doonfoot, Ayr Ayrshire
14 Holywood Jackson Road, Belfast County Down
15 Shap Wells Hotel Shap, Penrith Cumbria
15 Donaldson's College West Coates, Edinburgh Midlothian
16 Gosford Camp Aberlady, Longniddry East Lothian
16 Flaxley Green Stilecop Field, Rugeley Staffordshire
16 Prees Heath Whitchurch Shropshire
17 Lodge Moor camp Redmires Road, Lodge Moor, Sheffield South Yorkshire
17 Hyde Park Gardens 22 Hyde Park Gardens London W2
18 Featherstone Camp Featherstone Castle, Haltwhistle Northumberland
19 Happendon Camp Douglas Castle, Douglas Lanarkshire Scotland
20 Bickham Bickham Common, Bickham, Yelverton, Tavistock Devon
20 Bramham No. 1 Camp Bramham, Boston Spa West Yorkshire
20 Wilton Park Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire
21 Cultybraggan Comrie, Crieff Perthshire
22 Pennylands Camp Cumnock, Ayr Ayrshire
23 Le Marchant Camp Devizes Wiltshire
23 Shrewsbury (GPC) Shrewsbury Shropshire
23 Sudbury Sudbury Derbyshire
24 Knutsford (MH) Knutsford Cheshire
25 Leamington (GPC) Leamington Spa Warwickshire
25 Lodge Farm[2] Farncombe Down, Lambourn Berkshire
26 Barton Field Ely Cambridgeshire
27 Ledbury Ledbury Herefordshire
27 Nottingham (GPC) Nottingham Nottinghamshire
28 Knighthorpe Ashby Road, Loughborough Leicestershire
29 Abergavenny (GPC) Abergavenny Monmouthshire
29 Ormskirk (GH) Ormskirk Lancashire
29 Royston Heath Royston Hertfordshire
30 Aldershot (GPC) Aldershot Hampshire
30 Carpenters Road Stratford London E15
31 Ettington Park Newbold-Upon-Stour, Stratford-on-Avon Warwickshire
32 Wormwood Scrubs Shepherds Bush London W12
33 Dancers Hill South Mimms, Barnet Hertfordshire
33 Shorncliffe Folkestone (GPC), Folkestone Kent
33 Bonnytown Camp, Bonnytown Farm, Working Camp[3] Dunino, Kingsbarns Fife
34 Warebank Camp Kirkwall Orkney
35 Boughton Park Boughton, Northampton Northamptonshire
36 Darlington (GPC) Darlington County Durham
36 Hartwell Dog Track Camp Stone, Aylesbury Buckinghamshire
37 Bridgwater (GPC) Bridgwater Somerset
37 Sudeley Castle Winchcombe, Cheltenham Gloucestershire
38 Pool Park Efenechtyd, Ruthin Denbighshire
39 Castle Maxstoke Maxstoke, Coleshill Warwickshire
40 Somerhill Camp Tudeley, Tonbridge Kent
41 Ganger Camp Romsey Hampshire
42 Exhibition Field Camp Stanhope Close, Holsworthy Devon
43 Harcourt Hill North Hinksey, Oxford Oxfordshire
44 Goathurst Camp Goathurst, Bridgwater Somerset
45 Trumpington Trumpington, Cambridge Cambridgeshire
46 Kingsfold Camp Billingshurst, Horsham West Sussex
47 Motcombe Park Motcombe, Shaftesbury Dorset
49 Harrington Camp Farndon Road, Market Harborough Leicestershire
52 Nether Headon Nether Headon, Retford Nottinghamshire
61 Wynol's Hill Coalway, Coleford Gloucestershire
65 Setley Plain Brockenhurst Hampshire
71 Sheriffhales Shifnal, Telford Shropshire
81 Pingley Farm Brigg North Lincolnshire
82 Matlaske, On RAF station Matlaske, Sheringham Norfolk
83 Eden Camp Ryton, Malton North Yorkshire
93 Harperley Fir Tree, Crook County Durham
95 Batford Harpenden Hertfordshire
97 Birdingbury Camp,[4] Working Camp Birdingbury, Bourton-on-Dunsmore Warwickshire
103 Moota camp Moota, A595 Bothel Cumbria
107 Penleigh Camp Wells Somerset
108 Thirkleby Sandhill, Little Thirkleby, Thirsk North Riding of Yorkshire
115 White Cross Camp St Columb Major Cornwall
116 High Hall Camp Hatfield Heath, Epping Essex
124 Ashton Gate Camp Bedminster Bristol
143 Carlton Hall Carlton-in-Lindrick, Worksop Nottinghamshire
165 Watten Camp Thurso Caithness
155 Hornby Hall Camp Brougham, Penrith Cumbria
174 Norton-Cuckney Camp Norton, Mansfield Nottinghamshire
181 Carburton Camp Carburton, Worksop Nottinghamshire
186 Berechurch Hall Colchester Essex
189 Dunham Massey Bowdon, Altrincham Greater Manchester
191 Crewe Hall Crewe Hall, Crewe Green Cheshire
198/11 Island Farm/Special Camp XI Bridgend Glamorgan
251 East Cams Portchester Road, Fareham Hampshire
254 Sutton Bridge Camp,[5] Working Camp Holbeach, Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire
275/275a Kinnell Camp[6] Friockheim Forfar
280 North Lynn Farm Camp,[7] Working Camp King's Lynn Norfolk
292 Kirmington North Lincolnshire
294 Fisher's Camp Thedden Grange, Bentworth, 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
669[8] West Ridge Gardens, Greenford, West London Middlesex
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
1020 Shooter's Hill Shooter's Hill, Woolwich London
TBA St Erth Camp St Erth Cornwall
TBA Pitmedden Camp Pitmedden Aberdeenshire
111 "Deer Park" Monymusk Camp Kemnay Aberdeenshire
TBA Sandyhillock Camp Elchies, Archiestown Moray
TBA Plymyard Camp Eastham Cheshire[9]

bridgend Island Farm POW camp

References

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  1. ^ Rogers, Simon (2010-11-08). "Every prisoner of war camp in the UK mapped and listed". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  2. ^ Lodge Farm 2014 lambourn.info (archived copy checked 18 October 2023)
  3. ^ Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland - Bonnytown POW Camp, Working Camp, Site No. NO51SW 61.
  4. ^ The National Archives (The National Archives document reference No.: FO 939/306): '97 Working Camp, Birdingbury Camp, Bourton, Warwickshire'.
  5. ^ The National Archives (The National Archives document reference No.: FO 939/180): '254 Working Camp, Sutton Bridge Camp, Holbeach, Lincolnshire'.
  6. ^ Kinnell Camp canmore.rcahms.gov.uk
  7. ^ English Heritage, Roger JC Thomas, 2003, Prisoner of War Camps (1939 - 1948).
  8. ^ "Site of Prisoner of War camp 669, West Ridge Gardens". Greenford 365. 2012-12-11. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  9. ^ "South Wirral High School's Wartime Past". South Wirral High School. 5 June 2019.
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