Monument record 9572/1/1 - Prisoner of War Camp, Titchmarsh

Now demolished

{1} The "new Titchmarsh Hostel" had bunk beds and "was in a field close to the church". "There were many hostels" around Northants.

{2} "In 1941 the rector in veiled terms mentioned activities in the Church Field, about which he had not been consulted. People soon saw that the unheralded buildings were housing Land Army girls. Their presence, which must have livened up the village, as well as enormously helping the farmers, was first mentioned by the rector when in November 1941 they organised a dance..several of them married into the village..".

{3} Armishaw writes that he found no evidence of the WLA/PoW hostel buildings near the church but did locate a "nicely brick built gateway in an otherwise unremarkable dry stone wall which may have been the entrance to the site at TL02047997."

(Note: two rectangular buildings (set at right angles to each other) are present within a plot adjoining the road to the west, at a location identified by AA, on the OS 1:10,560 1958 edition and are almost certainly the site of the hostel. Subsequently demolished.)

<1> Northamptonshire Women's Institute, 1992, Northamptonshire Within Living Memory, (unchecked) (Chapter). SNN39673.

<2> Belgion H., 1979, Titchmarsh Past and Present, (unchecked) (Book). SNN39865.

<3> Armishaw, A., 2002, Letter, (unchecked) (Letter). SNN104606.

Record last edited

Oct 25 2016 9:44AM