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.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
| 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---ettington park *** |
. | 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 |
| 11a | Brownstown Camp |
Portadown |
Portadown |
Armagh |
| 12 | Elmfield Camp UNKNOWN |
Gilford Bury |
Portadown Manchester |
Armagh 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 |
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| 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 |
| 191 | Crewe Hall | Crewe Hall | Crewe Green | Cheshire |
| 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 |
|TBA |Pitmedden Camp | |Pitmedden |Aberdeenshire |- |TBA |Monymusk Camp |. |Kemnay |Aberdeenshire |-
External links
- Ganger Camp at Woodley, Romsey, Hampshire
- ISLAND FARM PRISONER OF WAR CAMP:198
- A map of locations of POW camps in Great Britain, and a list of them (more complete than the Wiki list above)
- Prisoner of War Camps 1939-1948, Roger JC Thomas, 2003, English Heritage (accessed September 18, 2007).
286 Purfleet camp, Beacon Hill, Purfleet, Essex 654 Purfleet camp, No.4 Transit Camp, Beacon Hill, Purfleet, Essex 655 Purfleet Camp, No.1 Transit Camp, Beacon Hill, Purfleet, Essex
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