PoW Camp 1022 Bradninch

The site is basically one large sports ground with separate areas and facilities making up; children’s play park, tennis, cricket, bowling clubs.

Location

The Rec Play Ground, Bradninch, Devon

Description

Site Visits

September 2019

Material

DSLR and Drone Photos
UK Foreign Office Inspection Reports

This again is a site for which the 2003 English Heritage PoW Report was unable to locate.

However, some basic investigation pulled up information that the site had been located and subject to an Archaeological Investigation, GeoPhysics etc and confirmed as the PoW Camp.

In modern times it is a mixed facility play and sports ground with no visible indications of the sites past.

Camera Images of the site of former PoW Camp 1022 Bradninch

Extracts from UK Foreign Office Inspection Report from UK National Archives Kew:

FO 1120/183 PoW Camp List 20Feb47 inc PoW Camp 1022

  • Foreign Office File 1120/183 list of POW Camps in the UK as of 20Feb47 as held by the UK National Archives in March 2019