Archaeological sites · Scottish Lowlands

Harperley POW Camp 93

In or near Crook.

Harperley POW Camp 93 — world War 2 prisoner of war camp in England.

Harperley POW Camp 93 is a archaeological in lowlands. (World War 2 prisoner of war camp in England.) Wikipedia notes: "Harperley POW Camp 93 is a surviving purpose-built World War II Prisoner of War (PoW) camp built to accommodate up to 1,400 inmates at Fir Tree near Crook, County Durham in the northeast of England. A work camp for low risk PoWs, it was built on a hillside overlooking Weardale and across the valley from Hamsterley Forest.". Coordinates 54.7135°, -1.8042°. Sources are credited at the bottom of this page.

Coordinates: 54.7135, -1.8042

Sources

wikidata: Q15223074 (CC0)
wikipedia: Harperley POW Camp 93 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
commons: Harperley looking West.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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