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A colored drawing shows a large, walled rectangular complex with fenced internal courtyards filled with numerous tiny figures.

Norman Cross Depot circa 1797

Norman Cross Depot

History of the Norman Cross Depot

The prison at Norman Cross was founded in 1796 and continued to be used for 18 years. It also became the burial ground for two thousand inmates who died there.

A tall stone column topped with a bronze eagle stands in a large, flat, empty field near a fence and a bare tree.

Norman Cross Napoleonic Monument

The cross was erected by the Entente Cordiale Society in 1914 in memory of the Napoleonic soldiers and sailors who died at the nearby prisoner of war camp.

Napoleonic prisoners

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cross_Prison

See also: Mike Osborne, Defending Cambridgeshire p73f

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