PoW Camp 265 Park Farm

The Park Farm PoW Camp Site has recently been built over by an extension to an existing housing estate

Location

Vestry Close, Woburn Drive, Thorney, Northamptonshire

Description

Site Visits

May 2019

Materials

DSLR Photos

Park Farm is used as both a working farm and an exhibition and visitor centre. On meeting the owner, I was shown into their exhibition halls which included information on the WWII PoW Camp.

The Camp although names for the car was a few hundred meters away on the edge of Thorney. A very new housing estate now sites on the site of the former PoW Camp and adjoins an earlier housing estate. In fact, on the current OS Maps 1:25,000 maps (at the time of my visit) but not Google show the location of the former camp is shown as a field or defined area that adjoins the older housing estate. I took several photos of Park Farm, Thorny on the way to the site and on the site of the camp itself in what is a modern housing estate that directly backs on to an older housing estate.


Camera Images of the site of the former PoW Camp 265 Park Farm