Troy Wood, Regional Government, North Zone Headquarters
Military Headquarters (20th Century), Radar Station (20th Century)
Site Name Troy Wood, Regional Government, North Zone Headquarters
Classification Military Headquarters (20th Century), Radar Station (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Crail; Scotland's Secret Bunker; Troywood; Airdrie
Canmore ID 86284
Site Number NO50NE 30
NGR NO 56843 08894
NGR Description Centred NO 56843 08894
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/86284
- Council Fife
- Parish Kilrenny
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO50NE 30 centred 56843 08894
See also NO50SE 58.
For comparable monument at Craig David, Kincardineshire (NO 8407 7348), see NO87SW 65.00.
Designed to be the Regional Seat of Government in the event of nuclear war. Now open to the public as 'Scotland's Secret Bunker'.
J Guy 1994 (NMRS, MS/810/3).
The bunker was constructed in 1951-3 and was in use until 1957 as a radar station, forming part of the country's early warning system as RAF Anstruther. From about 1960 until about 1968 it was a Regional Seat of Government (RSG) staffed by Civil Defence personnel, and during the final phase of military use (up to 1993) it had the status of Regional Government Headquarters.
Information from Mr Ian Smith, Asst. Curator, Anstruther Defence Establishment Preservation Trust, 8 September 1997.
The radar/bunker complex is visible on vertical air photographs (OS 67 304, 154-155, flown 7 August 1967), in a field about 410m N of Airdrie farmsteading. Several aerials/masts and mast bases are visible with other above ground buildings inlcuding the sewage works.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 2005.
