Beauly
Military Camp (20th Century), Prisoner Of War Camp (20th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Beauly
Classification Military Camp (20th Century), Prisoner Of War Camp (20th Century)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Orchard Park
Canmore ID 263159
Site Number NH54NW 151
NGR NH 52828 46623
NGR Description Centred NH 52828 46623
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/263159
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmorack
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH54NW 151 centred 52828 46623
A small Nissen hutted camp has been identified from postwar RAF vertical air photographs (58(A),421 Pt.3, 5046-5047, flown 21 June 1949) situated in a field to the N of the Priory and E of St Mary's Roman Catholic Chapel. Twenty four Nissen huts are visible on the photographs, with one group of eight on the southern boundary of the field and the remaining group ranged around a parade ground. There may have been further huts to the E of the parade ground, but it is not possible to confirm this on the evidence of the photographs.
The camp has been demolished since the date of the air photographs and the site utilised for a small modern housing estate around a street annotated Orchard Park on the current OS 1:2500 digital map.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), August 2004
This may possibly have been a prisoner of war camp at the end of World War II. Noted as an unknown PoW in the English Heritage report of camps.
R J C Thomas 2003
