Site of first purpose-built prisoner of war camp saved by Historic England funding

<p>Norman Cross prison in Cambridgeshire was home to up to 7,000 inmates during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars</p><p>The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars saw thousands of enemy prisoners incarcerated in the UK; so many that the Admiralty, with responsibility for their welfare, had to devise swift solutions to cope with rocketing numbers.</p><p>One was the construction of what was reputedly the first purpose-built prisoner of war camp, sited on the Great North Road in Cambridgeshire – far from the sea so prisoners could not easily escape back to France.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jun/12/site-of-first-purpose-built-prisoner-of-war-camp-saved-by-historic-england-funding">Continue reading...</a>