Norman Cross, the world’s first purpose-built prisoner of war camp, is located near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire.
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A Napoleonic prisoner of war camp buried under a field in Cambridgeshire has been bought by a trust with the intention of preserving it as a historic site.
Norman Cross, the world’s first purpose-built prisoner of war camp, was privately owned by a farmer, and has been bought by Nene Park Trust.
Norman Cross prison in Cambridgeshire was home to up to 7,000 inmates during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
The Cambridgeshire site was once home to 7,000 French Prisoners
The site once held soldiers captured during the Napoleonic Wars
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