Loth, Chain Home Radar Station
Radar Station (20th Century)
Site Name Loth, Chain Home Radar Station
Classification Radar Station (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Lothbeg Point; Crackaig Links
Canmore ID 141445
Site Number NC91SE 32
NGR NC 9622 1006
NGR Description Centred NC 9622 1006
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/141445
- Council Highland
- Parish Loth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC91SE 32.00 centred 9622 1006
This site falls partly on sheet NC90NE
NC91SE 32.01 NC 96594 10262 Engine House
NC91SE 32.02 NC 95830 10666 Engine House
NC91SE 32.03 centred NC 95907 10162 Military Camp
NC91SE 32.04 NC 95694 10162 and NC 95588 10860 Military Camp
NC91SE 32.05 NC 9687 1015 Buildings
NC91SE 32.06 NC 97354 10599 Bunker; Radar masts (bases)
NC91SE 32.07 NC 96961 10320 Bunker
NC91SE 32.08 NC 97120 10455 Bunker
NC91SE 32.09 NC 97257 10401 Bunker
NC91SE 32.10 NC 96492 10143 and NC 96231 10065 Radar masts (bases)
NC91SE 32.11 NC 9553 0994 (falls on mapsheet NC90NE) Huts
Loth Chain Home (W.C.H.) radar station is situated in an area annotated Crackaig Links on the current chart copy edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1964). Further elements of the station, such as the accommodation camps and the remote reserve generator building are located in and around Crackaig Farm (NC91SE 7.00). The two transmitter masts at NC c.9622 1006 and NC c.9648 1014 on Crackaig Links, and two receiver masts at NC c.9593 0967 and NC c.9600 0975 (sheet NC90NE) near Lothbeg Point.
The radar station is visible on RAF WWII oblique aerial photographs and show an earlier stage of development (241B Scot 1 SHT 21, 432254, A19-21, flown 29 March 1941). The complete layout of the radar station is visible on vertical air phtographs (CPE/Scot/UK/225, 3427-3430, flown 1947).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 1999
Situated on the S side of the A9 trunk road at Crakaig and Lothbeg Point. The main site covers the whole of Crakaig Links on the S side of the railway. The accommodation camp and remote reserve are situated at Crackaig farmsteading.
Many buildings are still extant, including the two transmitter (Tx) and two Receiver (Rx) blocks, mast bases, hut bases and lookout posts. This site underwent several modifications during the war which resulted in the duplication of some of the buildings. The equipment for this station came from Thrumster (ND34SW 37))
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.1, 10, Vol.3, 9-10.
