During the Second World War the hall and its park were requisitioned by the government. Between 1939 and 1942 it housed prisoners of war and was used as a transit camp. From December 1942 until August 1943 it was taken over by the 2nd American Hospital, with 4265 casualties treated in the space of only seven months. It then became home to the 49th American Station Hospital, the second largest American hospital in England. Vacated at the end of the war, in 1946 it became a Polish Resettlement Camp..
On a nearby notice board the date for the closure of the Polish camp is given, take this as ABCD. The cache can be found at: -
N52 16.(A+C)(C-D-A)(B-C-D) W000 15.D(D+D)(A+A)
Check sum of all the figures is 40. (The cache is near but NOT on the A1, Please take care with GeoKids and GeoDogs).
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