PoW Camp 137 Chaddlewood House

This large county house type building used as a PoW Camp is now flats

Location

Chaddlewood House, Glen Road, Chaddlewood, Plymouth PL7 2HH

Description

Site Visits

September 2019

Material

DSLR Photos
UK Foreign Office Inspection Report

Chaddlewood House still exists and local news articles implied that only the main house was used as a PoW Camp.

The PoW Camp is reported to have been made up as per many such camps where a stately home / large villa was used in that they consisted of the main house along with temporary accomodation typically in the form of Tents, Nissen or Wooden Huts within the grounds.

The house today has been converted into flats and sits alongside a modern housing estate with no trace of any of the temporary accommodation.


Camera Images of the site of former PoW Camp 137 Chaddlewood House


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

FO 1120/183 PoW Camp List 20Feb47 – Inc Camp 137