Kirkwall, Inganess Road, Communications And Repeater Station
Communications Station (20th Century), Radio Station (20th Century)
Site Name Kirkwall, Inganess Road, Communications And Repeater Station
Classification Communications Station (20th Century), Radio Station (20th Century)
Canmore ID 269241
Site Number HY40NE 41
NGR HY 4545 0975
NGR Description Centred HY 4545 0975 and HY 4555 0995
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/269241
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Kirkwall And St Ola
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY40NE 41.00 centred 4545 0975 and 4555 0995
HY40NE 41.01 centred HY 4540 0995 and HY 4520 0990 Military camps
The main WW II communications station for Orkney was situated to the N and S of the junction between the Inganess Road and the A960. There are few remains at this location as much of the site has been built over by a postwar Creamery and housing. A few mast bases were extant in 1988 (All Scotland Survey 06 87 319-320, flown 27 June 1987) on the SE side of what is now Easdale Loan, but nothing could be seen in a field on the date of visit nor in the field to the N of Inganess Road.
This communications station was superseded by a new one built during 1941 to the SE (see HY40NE 28.00).
The whole complex is visible on WW II RAF vertical air photographs (NLA 16, 612-613, flown 22 June 1941), which shows the two areas of masts and the large groups of huts comprising the technical and accommodation camps.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, GS), August 1999, 2000
