Hatston Airfield
Military Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Hatston Airfield
Classification Military Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Hatston Cottages; Hatston Farm
Canmore ID 269707
Site Number HY41SW 135.16
NGR HY 4338 1209
NGR Description Centred HY 4338 1209
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Kirkwall And St Ola
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY41SW 135.16 centred 4338 1209
Nothing could be seen in a field between Hatston Cottages and Hatston Farm of a group of Nissen and other types of huts visible on WW II RAF vertical air photographs (NLA 16, 616-617, flown 22 June 1941). The camp was expanded during the war as vertical air photographs taken in 1946, (CPE/Scot/UK 188, 4174-4175, flown 10 October 1946), show that the camp extended eastwards to a sharp bend in the track leading to the centre of the airfield.
The site is now partially occupied by a small postwar housing estate (Hatston Cottages) and Hatston Farm (HY41SW 149).
Visited by RCAHMS (DE), August 1999