The following is a list of camps on which I have some information and would like to get more.

 When I have enough information about a camp I add a page to this site.  Please help me fill in the gaps. Contact  zosia
 

CAMPS THAT CLOSED BETWEEN 1959 and 1969/70
 
Northwick Park Camp Polish Families camp 1947 to 1970. Melton Mowbray N.A.B.Families 1947 to 1961/62
Blackshaw Moor camp StaffordshireN.S.H.C.  Families camp 1947 to 1961 Marsworth  near Dunstable 1949 Tring Herts. Temporarily ex- army accommodation Families Camp closed 1960/61
Doddington camp P.R.C. Cheshire 2nd largest  NAB Families camp 1960/61 Daglingworth  N.A.B Gloucestershire Polish Families camp closed on termination  of lease by 1961
Checkendon Polish hostel Berkshire1948 to 1961 had a Polish school with about 40 children.  Head teacher was H.L.M. Mason, Mrs A. Mróz teacher Prist J. Nowak. East Moor Yorkshire NAB  Polish dependants camp1948/9 to 1959 in 1949 there were 223 men ,271 women and 187 children living in the camp
Hodgemoor nr Amersham 1947 - 1959 Families Fairford Camp N.A.B. Gloucestershire was the largest Polish Families camp. Had to be closed on termination of lease by 1959
Morpeth Common Family camp 1947-1962 Wheaton Aston Camp Staffordshire Families 1965/66
Delamere Park. Northwich Cheshire P.R.C. Polish Families camp1949  --1963 Long Marston Warwickshire MOD Central Engineers stores and  camp for Polish demobilised  soldiers worked and lived  1948 to 1968.
   
 

CAMPS THAT CLOSED IN MID TO LATE 50s
 
 
Ashby Folville closed 1956/58 People transferred to Melton Mowbray hostel. Hazlemere High Wycombe 1948 P.In 1951 with arrival of 70 Polish families  the camp it lost it's military  character becoming a hostel for civilians.  It closed  in 1955/6
Bower Wood Beaconsfield Bucks. Families  1955/56 Keevil Steeple Ashton nr Trowbridge1949--1957/8The camp had a chapel, a  Polish school, a youth club, a football club, and a scout group. General Anders
Springhill Lodges N.A.B.Glos. Polish Families camp 1947 to 1958 Lowther Park Penrith N.A.B.  Polish Dependants Camp1 948 In 1949 there were 116 men 106 women and 74 children The camp closed in 1955 /6
Foxley camp Herefordshire closed 1955 Ludford Magna RAF camp 1940 to 1945 Major Polish transit camp for up to 700 refugees until around 1948/9 with a dwindling core of about 40 families remaining beyond 1955/56
Grove Park Iver  Buckinghamshire.  When the military moved out in the late 40s the camp was occupied by squatters, families of Polish soldiers with no were else to go.  In1957the war office closed the camp evicting 4 families with children and giving a months notice to the remaining twenty three people. Market Harborough known as (Lubbenham)
Great Missenden Woodlands Park camp military and families 1956 Mepal  Cambridgeshire1948-1958 Families
Hiltingbury Southampton Polish Second Corps' dependents' hostel In 1947 there were 843 people living in the camp.  Southampton Council re-housed the remaining families in council houses and the camp closed in 1956/57. Nettlebed Hostel 1947 to 1955
Husbands Bosworth Camp Leicestershire Families Podington  Bedfordshire 1948- 1956 In the early 50s there were 300 Poles (squatting in camp) in the camp.
Hardwick Park Chesterfield  1947 1955 Petworth camp West Sussex Had a Polish school and library 1949 to 1955
Haydon Park  Somerset Was for a while the Josef Conrad secondary Polish school also home to DP families closed 1955/6 Tweedsmuir 1956/57
Hallburn Hostel LongtownCumberland1947---1953/4  in 1952 there were 32 Polish families Weeting Hall Norfolk1949 to  1955  Families.
Kelvedon Essex 1949---1958/59 Families Babdown nr. Stroud Gloucestershire Family Camp 1948 to 1959
   
 

CAMPS that were short lived and closed in the early fifties, with little information about them.

 
Breighton Airfield  North Yorkshire In 1949 there were 35 Polish families living there. Seighford Camp Polish families.
Burlington Crossing Stourport In  1951 there were nine Polish families in residence. St.Mawgan N.A.B. Polish dependants hostel. In 1949 there were 103 men, 71 women and 62 Juveniles and children living on the site.
Cark Ex-service men camp Lancaster1946   1949 Sturgate Airfield Lincoln
Carr Lane Hull Southrop
Domfield Lane / Maghull Liverpool Transit camp for Polish soldier's families Shobden,  P.R.C.   1947In 1951 there were only 8 polish families living in the camp. Most have emigrated to the U.S.A.
Hermitage nr. NewburyWW2 US hospital after the war becoming  a camp for Polish refugees closed 1949.  Now a School of Military Survey Perton Hostel  Wolverhampton RAF Perton was a small training establishment with the potential of housing many families. In was a mixed Anglo Polish Hostel
Kelstern   Airfield LincolnN.A.B. Polish dependent Hostel. In 1949 there were 81 men, 124 women and 87 Juveniles and children living in the Hostel. Wrottesley camp Wolverhanpton
Lulsgate Bottom Ex RAF Camp nr. Bristol in1953 there were 26 Polish families living there. To day is the site of Bristol Air Port Tilstock   Cheshire.
   
 

POLISH HOSPITALS AND RETIREMENT HOMES
 
Penrhos North Wales. RAF aerodrome. PKPR. (Polish demobilisation Corps) Today a Polish retirement home run by Polish Housing Society Ltd. Penley North Wales. 1946  2002  (known as  No. 3 Hospital )with just a hand full of patient left the old hospital wards were closed. A new little hospital now stands at one end of the camp grounds.
lIford Park nr. Stover Devon Families up to the 60s today newly built retirement home and hospice. Iscoyd Park North Wales 1947-- 1956 Polish Military Hospital. (  known as hospital 4)
   
 

POLISH BOARDING SCHOOLS
 
Stowell Park Gloucestershire Polish Grammar School for girls. ( Gimnazjum i Liceum Żeńskie Im. I. Paderewskiego) and Polish Secondary School (im. Królowej Jadwigi) A book about the Grammar School is available in Polish " Drogami Świata do Stowell Park" 1946 --1953/4 Lilford  Northamptonshire Polish Technical School named after Tadeusz Kościuszko
Bottisham Polish Grammar School for boys Pitsford Northamptonshire 1947/8 A girls boarding school run by the Polish order of the Holy Family of Nazareth closed in 1975.
Fawley Court  Henley on Themes Boarding school for boys run by the Marian Fathers. Opened in 1953/4 The school closed in the 1980s  
   
 
 
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