Place of the first dedicated prisoner in the world in the world, which goes out Return to the Napoleonic Warshe saved Historical England Financing.
Composed in four months using 500 carpentry and workers, historic sites in Yaxley, CambridgeshireLocated by about 7,000 French Prisoners and inspired the creation The largest world collection of craft works inmates.
USA, Napoleon construction of the city prison warehouse, containing the remains of the camp from 1796. year, purchased Nene Park Trust with £ 200,000 for financing from historical England and £ 50,000 from National Lottery Fund.
There is currently no public access to the site, but Nene Park Trust develop plans to enable visitors to explore the area.
Procurement of the Norman cross-site meets the ambition of long-term residence and fans, Derek Lopez, who died before he saw his vision.
Duncan Wilson, director of historical England, said: “Norman Cross inmate in our Joint European Heritage deserves to be better known. In our partnership in Lopez, the savings of this internationally significant monument for the nation.”
Functioning as an independent city with barracks, offices, hospital, school, mall and banking system, prison from the scale is about 250m for 270m and is designed about four quadruple.
Each had wooden accommodation blocks for prisoners, as well as a worker for exercise, shop and cooking store.
Prisoners have created craft work – including artifacts such as toys, model ships and dominos sets carved from wood or animal bone – and sold them in the regular market.
The battles were fighting in Europe, the Caribbean, North Africa and the Indian Ocean with French and Dutch soldiers and sailors were captured and brought to the UK.
The last prisoners left the camp in 1814. years and dismantled two years later.
The monument of 1,770 prisoners who died there, many of the disease like typhus was built in 1914. years.
Paul Chamberlain, Author and historian Napoleonic era, said: “Pack” Norman Cross prison is that the historical site that continues to tell its story, in which communities, and domestic and national.
“This acquisition will enable more story to say for future generations and provide us with a better understanding of the lost city that had a significant impact on the region more than two hundred years ago.”