The UK's lost prison town with 7,000 people that disappeared off the face of the Earth
In fields are "lumps and bumps", Peterborough Archaeology says, as well as a memorial to 1,770 prisoners who died there. The prison was closed in 1814. Historic England says that, in 1816, its ...
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The historic Cambridgeshire site next to the A1 which was the world's first prisoner-of-war camp
five miles from Peterborough. There isn't much to see of Norman Cross nowadays – the buildings were demolished and the site is now in agricultural use. The last obvious sign of the camp is a ...