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Orkney, St Mary's, St Mary's Road, Camp
Military Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Orkney, St Mary's, St Mary's Road, Camp
Classification Military Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Graeme Park; Holm Community Centre
Canmore ID 291181
Site Number HY40SE 70
NGR HY 47335 01416
NGR Description Centred HY 47335 01416
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/291181
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Holm
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY40SE 70 centred 47335 01416
A small Nissen hutted camp has been identified from RAF WW II vertical air phtographs (WL/10, 1.24-1.25, flown 4 July 1942), immediately NW of St Mary's Road.
The camp consisted of at least eighteen (18) Nissen and other types of huts in four rows running N to S. Immediately to the N a zig-zag trench is visible on the frame 1.25. The camp possibly provided accommodation for service personnel based at St Mary's.
The site is now occupied by a recent small housing estate annotated as Graeme Park on OS maps. Holm Community Centre is immediately S of the site of this camp occupies the site of a large house visible on the air photographs (ibid).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), November 2007.
