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PRN | 32 | ||||
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Site or location name | Watlington POW Camp | ||||
Summary | |||||
Description | Old water mill building, now converted and used as residential accommodation. The building is a listed building; its usage as a POW camp has not previously been identified. The mill and associated out buildings operated as a camp fro German prisoners who were employed in agricultural labour in the vicinity. The camp held circa 50 prisoners, and the camp commandant was A.E.S. Charlwood | ||||
Monument Type | PRISONER OF WAR CAMP;PRISONER OF WAR CAMP | ||||
Desgination | None | ||||
Material | BRICK, WOOD | ||||
Location |
Country | ENGLAND | ||||
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County | |||||
Site Location | Adjacent to the junction between unnamed road from Stoke Talmage to Tetsworth and the B480 | ||||
Postcode | |||||
Map Reference | NGR: SU66139617 (466130, 196170) | ||||
Condition/Threat | |||||
Condition (Date) | Good (11-07-2014) | ||||
Source | |||||
Charlwood, AES (1918) Ordnance Survey 1912 OS Map with annotated notes. Ordnance Survey . | |||||
Alexander (2013) Captivity & Cultivation (Unpublished masters dissertation - Bristol Uni). | |||||
Administration | |||||
Recorded By (Date) | Richard Alexander - Archaeology Masters Dissertation - Bristol Uni | ||||
Copiled On | 11-07-2014 | ||||
Last Updated | 11-09-2014 |
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Image metadata | CSV | 590 Kb |
Image metadata (scanned documents) | CSV | 36 Kb |
Watlington prisoner of war camp (South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire). Map details. (File name: 32_17.jpg) |
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Watlington prisoner of war camp (South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire). Rough plan showing layout of mill and associated outer buildings. (File name: 32_38.jpg) |
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