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Meoble Lodge
Lodge (Period Unassigned), Military Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Meoble Lodge
Classification Lodge (Period Unassigned), Military Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Special Training Centre
Canmore ID 294101
Site Number NM78NE 8
NGR NM 79552 87742
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/294101
- Council Highland
- Parish Arisaig And Moidart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM78NE 8 79552 87742
Situated on the E side of the River Meoble which runs between Loch Beoraid and Loch Morar. Owned by Sir Berkeley Sheffield.
Former shooting lodge requistioned by the War Office in 1940 as a Special Training Centre for Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents sent to Europe. It was also used to train United States OSS agents.
The lodge is visible on vertical air photographs (CPE/UK/Scot 178, frames4192-4193, flown 7 Ocotber 1946).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 2007; S Allan 2007
