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Newbattle Abbey Hostel, Military Camp

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Military Camp (20th Century)

Site Name Newbattle Abbey Hostel, Military Camp

Classification Military Camp (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Newbattle Road

Canmore ID 178743

Site Number NT36NW 202

NGR NT 3335 6628

NGR Description NT c. 3335 6628

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Scanned image of oblique aerial view of Newbattle Abbey, garden, sundials and military camp, taken from the N.
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Administrative Areas

  • Council Midlothian
  • Parish Newbattle
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District Midlothian
  • Former County Midlothian

Architecture Notes

NT36NW 202 NT c. 3335 6628

The full extent of the original military camp, which was constructed in the grounds of Newbattle Abbey House (NT36NW 14.00) is visible on vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 11, 5117-5118, flown 15 April 1946). It extended from a point immediately SW of the Maiden Bridge (NT36NW) to an area now occupied by the small housing estate on Kirk Bank, N of Barondale House (NT 3303 6565). The hutted camp occupied approximately 19 hectares of parkland within the Newbattle Estate.

Visible on the air photographs are about 84 huts to the NE of the B703 Newbattle Road with a further 56 to the SW, immediately N of Barondale House. Many of the huts visible on the [hotographs have camouflaged roofs. Of the wartime huts, about 23 are still extant and used as part of the Newbattle Hostel, in an area to the N of Newbattle Abbey House.

The sewage filtration plant was at c.NT 3358 6633 and also visible on the photographs is a long practice trench (c.NT 3341 6611 to c.NT 3356 6624) with further short practice trenches at c.NT 3351 6659 and c.NT3363 6654. No trace of any of the trenches has been noted from more recent aerial photography (RCAHMS 1997), and the hutted camp to the SW has now been built over by a new housing estate.

Infdormation from RCAHMS (DE), March 2007

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