Hatston Airfield, Wrns Accommodation
Military Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Hatston Airfield, Wrns Accommodation
Classification Military Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Grainbank
Canmore ID 269639
Site Number HY41SW 135.15
NGR HY 4365 1156
NGR Description Centred HY 4365 1156
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/269639
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Kirkwall And St Ola
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY41SW 135.15 centred 4365 1156
Nothing could be seen of the accommodation camp for Womans Royal Naval Service (WRNS) is situated S of the A965 main road about 250m NW of the farmsteading of Grainbank. The site is now occupied by the western portion of a small postwar housing estate annotated 'Grainpark' on the current OS 1:2500 scale digital map.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE), August 1999
