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Loch Doon Gunnery School, Loch Doon
Tracked Target Range (First World War)
Site Name Loch Doon Gunnery School, Loch Doon
Classification Tracked Target Range (First World War)
Alternative Name(s) Portmark To Craigencolon Tracked Target Range
Canmore ID 346952
Site Number NX49NE 30
NGR NX 49457 95221
NGR Description From NX 49956 96607 to NX 49048 94263
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/346952
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Carsphairn
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
Note (13 March 2015)
Extending for 2.4km on the E side of Loch Doon (extends in to map sheet NX49SE) is a tracked target range. It was built as part of the range for training aerial gunnery towards the end of the First World War. The tracked target range survives as a series of raised trackbeds and concrete bridges. The southern terminal ends in a concrete building which may have housed equipment which suggest that the bogies were cable towed.
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 13 March 2015.
