Norman Cross was the world's first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, that housed around 7,000 French prisoners during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, located just south of Peterborough, constructed in 1796–97.
Norman Cross was the world's first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, that housed around 7,000 French prisoners during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, located just south of Peterborough, constructed in 1796–97.
