Culreoch, Gun Emplacements
Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Site Name Culreoch, Gun Emplacements
Classification Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Ryan Aa Defences
Canmore ID 81601
Site Number NX05NE 39
NGR NX 06918 58294
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81601
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX05NE 39 06918 58294
NX 0692 5827. This heavy anti-aircraft battery is situated on an E-W track, to the NE of Whiteleys farm, that connects the A716 to a minor road. Four gun emplacements, command post and ammunition store could be seen buried under manure.
J Guy 1999; NMRS MS 810/6, 4-5 (volume1), 3, (volume 2)
The heavy anti-aircraft battery is visible on postwar RAF vertical air photographs (106G/UK 986, 3030-3031, flown 9 November 1945). The photographs show that the four gun-emplacements and command post (NX) were about 90m SW along a track off a side road running from the A77 to Little Lochans Cottages. The L-shaped accommodation camp for the crew was another 200m to the SW. At the date the photographs were taken, ten Nissen huts were still standing with a further 16 hut bases visible. No trace of a radar installation could be seen on the air photographs.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2004
