PoW Camp 97 Birdingbury

Former PoW Camp 97 Birdingbury is now just a couple of empty warwickshire fields

Location

Birdingbury Lane, Frankton, Warwickshire

Description

Site Visits

August 2020
June 2019

Material

DSLR and Drone Photos
UK Foreign Office Inspection Report

This former PoW Site is located alongside Birdingbury Lane just to the South East of the small Warwickshire village of Frankton.

The site as it exists today is simple farmland. The field in which the site was based is used to graze sheep and has not right of way, footpath or public access. As such I was unable to make a physical search of the field in order to ascertain is any hut bases or hidden signs of the came have persisted to modern times. Using a drone to search the sites in addition to creating a MapView image from a series of shoots plus multiple oblique images no traces of the former site were detected.


Camera and Drone Images of the site of former PoW Camp 97 Birdingbury


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

FO 939/306 PoW Camp 97 Birdingbury – Lecture Reports
FO 939/306 PoW Camp 97 Birdingbury – Narrative Reports