Havelock Road Camp / River Valley Road Camp

Havelock Road Camp / River Valley Road Camp

Historic site

About

The area bounded by River Valley Road and Havelock Road was occupied by Prisoner-of-War (POW) camps during the Japanese Occupation. Five thousand POWs lived in dilapidated attap huts here.

National Heritage Board, Historic Sites (open data, Singapore Open Data Licence).

Facts and sources

Names
EN Havelock Road Camp / River Valley Road Camp한국어 해블록 로드 캠프 및 리버 밸리 로드 캠프 English: National Heritage Board; other languages: Wikidata Q111180549; Korean by DealSingapore (NIKL loanword rules)
Heritage
Historic Site (marked by NHB) National Heritage Board, record updated 2021-03-05
Planning area
Tanglin URA Master Plan 2025
Opening hours
Not in our sources NHB lists and Wikidata, read 2026-10-01
Data
/api/sight/havelock-road-camp-river-valley-road-camp.json The same facts as JSON, for apps and AI agents

Getting there

Great World · Exit 2 The exit nearest this place, 664 m in a straight line (station 777 m). Not a walking route Open in Google Maps Beside bus stop no. 13059, Valley Point Shopping Centre, 491 River Valley Road, Singapore 248371

Nearby

Kampong Delta Mosque Mosque · 275 m away Gan Eng Seng School Historic site · 493 m away Kim Seng Bridge Bridge · 498 m away Tiong Bahru Park Park and garden · 692 m away Masjid Jamiyah Ar-Rabitah Mosque · 911 m away Jiak Kim Bridge Bridge · 1013 m away

Wikidata (CC0). Sources and photo credits are on the terms page.