Monument record TR 04 SW 386 - Prisoner Of War Camp 86

The site of a Second World War prisoner of war camp at Stanhope, known as Camp 86. This was a purpose-built, standard type camp. Common buildings and facilities at standard type camps included water towers, offices, officer's mess, a canteen, guard rooms, barrack huts, ablution blocks, cell blocks, a camp reception station (medical facility/hospital), a cookhouse, dining rooms, recreation rooms and living huts or tents. The camp originally contained tented accommodation, but later during the war acquired 16-feet span Nissen huts to replace the tents.The camp functioned as a German work camp, where prisoners were sent to work as labourers in the local area. It could have been in use up until 1948. The camp has since been removed but a footprint of the site could survive.