Checkendon polish camp
Date: March 2022
Location: Oxfordshire
Public or Abandoned: Abandoned
Demolished: No
i first saw the Polish camp online - and I knew I was passing through the area for a different explorer so i thought i give this place a checkout - it was so easy to find due to the number of reports and history online.
we arrived in the area about 10am and we parked up on a layby and headed on to explore - it was done in three sections so the first section was the first two buildings - sadly you couldn't get into to them, then we went to the next 3 little Nissan huts - again there was nothing in them and then tracked through the brambles to find the last building that we knew off and this building was the one I wanted
the building itself looks small on the outside but was very impressive - and was a lot bigger than expected on the inside but the one thing that shocked me was the amount of stuff that was left inside.
so there is a lot of history scattered online about this site -
so it said that Checkendon camp was taken from the MOD back in 1948, and was turned in to a hostal hosing for polish families , the camp was similar to other ones that are scatted across the Uk - it said that this camp closed down in the early 60S
The camp at Checkendon, located at the outskirts of the village, offered accommodation in small buildings known as Nissen huts.
the Polish camp was there to help with schooling the children and training the adults for civilian jobs.
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