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Leuchars Airfield
Radio Station (20th Century)
Site Name Leuchars Airfield
Classification Radio Station (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Raf Leuchars
Canmore ID 260712
Site Number NO42SE 59.26
NGR NO 4600 2150
NGR Description Centred NO 4600 2150
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/260712
- Council Fife
- Parish Leuchars
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO42SE 59.26 centred 4600 2150
A small radio station has been identified from RAF wartime vertical air photographs, (NLA 68, 3033-3034, flown 27 August 1943), in a field to the N of Earlshall Road.
The radio station comprises five small masts and a transmitter block at c.NO 4598 2152 with an underground cable trench leading to three huts a c.NO 4588 2149. Two further buildings have been noted in this field although it is not clear whether their use was connected to the radio station. The whole group is guarded by a type 27 pillbox (NO59SE 3).
All the buildings radio station and pillbox have been removed during the subsequent construction of the married quarters at Hunter Crescent, which were built during the postwar rebuilding of Leuchars Airfield. Apart from the pillbox, nothing of the station is depicted on the OS 1:2500 scale map (1966).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), July 2004
