Norman Cross
![Plan of Norman Cross barracks and prison in 1813](/Images/godic/202501/30/Norman_Cross_plan2958.jpg")
![A painting of Norman Cross c1797.](/Images/godic/202501/30/Norman_Cross_painting2959.jpg")
![Model of Norman Cross by M. Foulley in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris. Photographed in 1913.](/Images/godic/202501/30/Norman_Cross_model2959.jpg")
![Model of the Block House made by a French prisoner in 1801. Photographed in 1913.](/Images/godic/202501/30/Norman_Cross_block_house_model2959.jpg")
Norman Cross lies near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Traditionally in Huntingdonshire, it gave its name to a hundred and, from 1894 to 1974, Norman Cross Rural District. The junction of the A1 and A15 roads is here.
It was the site of the world's first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp or "depot" built during the Napoleonic Wars by the Navy.