Banff, Boyndie Airfield, Domestic Site, Site No.7
Air Raid Shelter(S) (Second World War), Military Camp (Second World War), Slit Trench (Second World War)
Site Name Banff, Boyndie Airfield, Domestic Site, Site No.7
Classification Air Raid Shelter(S) (Second World War), Military Camp (Second World War), Slit Trench (Second World War)
Canmore ID 293487
Site Number NJ66SW 21.08
NGR NJ 62548 63156
NGR Description Centred NJ 62548 63156
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/293487
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Boyndie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Banffshire
NJ66SW 21.08 centred 62548 63156
A former domestic site or accommodation area for Boyndie Airfield is situated at a cross-road between tracks from Rettie farmsteading, the main A98 road and Crows Wood. All that could be seen on the date of visit were at least twelve hut bases a pile of concrete rubble, the concrete bases for a further three larger buildings and the fragmentary remains of at least one Stanton type air-raid shelter. Part of the site is now in use for hay storage.
The domestic site is visible on vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/ UK 108, frames 3055-3056, flown 23 May 1946), which show that at that date there were at least 41 huts, mainly of the Nissen type with two larger buildings, one of which the gable end and water tank tower survive at NJ 62582 83100 and at least seven air-raid shelters.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, NG), 27 February 2008
Note (28 January 2021)
The Pillbox Study Group record two Stanton type air raid shelters (NJ 6271 6324 and NJ 6274 6325) and a weapons pit (slit trench NJ 6261 6317) from a site plan of the airfield.
Information from Pillbox Study Group to HES (AKK) 28 January 2021
