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:[citation needed
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] 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] Holbeach , Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire 275/275a Kinnell Camp[ 6] Friockheim Forfar 280 North Lynn Farm Camp,[ 7] 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
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