Monument record 0188801101 - Grounds of Westhorpe House

Summary

Site of possible Second World War prisoner-of-war camp in the grounds of Westhorpe House.

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  • PRISONER OF WAR CAMP (Modern - 1939 AD? to 1945 AD?)

Description

Westhorpe Park mentioned as the site of a prisoner-of-war camp in BRO publication about wartime Buckinghamshire. Mentions one prisoner-of-war, Rudi Baetke, who stayed in Buckinghamshire after the war and found himself housing his own herd of pigs in the very huts which he had inhabited in 1944 as a P.O.W at Westhorpe House (B5).
NGR to cluster of buildings first shown on late 1940s/early 1950s OS map.

Sources (1)

  • <5>SBC19581 Bibliographic reference: Buckinghamshire Record Office. 1995. BRO 1995 Wartime Buckinghamshire 1939-1945. p13-14.

Location

Grid reference SU 86592 87375 (point)
Civil Parish LITTLE MARLOW, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jul 4 2022 8:37AM

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