PoW Camp 47 Motcombe Park

Motcombe Park is now a Private Indepentent School as such formal permission is needed to entre this site

Location

Port Regis School, Motcombe Rd, Motcombe, Shaftesbury SP7 9NS

Description

Site Visits

June 2019

Material

DSLR Photo
UK Foreign Office Inspection Report

This former PoW Camp site is located within the grounds of a private residential school. It was term time during my visit to this area as such I did not seek to enter the site or request permission. An out of term time revisit is needed to this former PoW Site

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

FO 939-129 PoW Camp 47 Motcombe Park – Inspection Reports
FO 1120/183 PoW Camp List 20Feb47 inc PoW Camp 47

  • PoW Camp 47 Motcombe Park Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/129
  • PoW Camp 47 Motcombe Park Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/129
  • PoW Camp 47 Motcombe Park Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/129
  • PoW Camp 47 Motcombe Park Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/129
  • PoW Camp 47 Motcombe Park Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/129
  • 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