Peterhead Airfield
Air Raid Shelter(S) (Second World War), Military Camp(S) (Second World War)
Site Name Peterhead Airfield
Classification Air Raid Shelter(S) (Second World War), Military Camp(S) (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Longside Airfield
Canmore ID 267770
Site Number NK04NE 12.08
NGR NK 0870 4605
NGR Description Centred NK 0870 4605
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/267770
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Peterhead
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NK04NE 12.08 centred 0870 4605
What may be the main 'Mess' area for Peterhead Airfield is situated to the W of a minor road running S to Howemuir from the A950. One 'H' shaped hut group and three other larger hut groups with several huts are visible on RAF vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK109, 3012-3013, flown 23 May 1946). Dispersed amongst the huts are at least 20 emergency air-raid shelters.
Also visible on the air photographs about 300m W of the 'Mess' group is another small group of huts set in an L-shape at the SE corner of a field.
At least four of the larger buildings/huts and several of the smaller huts survive in an area now annotated as 'Industrial Estate' on the current OS 1:2500 digital map.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), November 2004
Nts Project (2 February 2021)
The Pillbox Study Group has recorded one Stanton type air raid shelters and sixteen blast shelters, all depicted on a OS 1:2500map (1972).
The Stanton air raid was located at NK 0869 4603 and the blast shelters were located at NK 0863 4592, NK 0868 4592, NK 0874 4592, NK 0869 4595, NK 0869 4598, NK 0869 4600, NK 0866 4602, NK 0876 4597, NK 0876 4600, NK 0876 4603, NK 0877 4606, NK 0870 4606, NK 0868 4612, NK 0873 4611, NK 0875 4615 and
NK 0888 4602.
The site of the camp has been redeveloped for industrial and the shelters have been removed.
Information from Pillbox Study Group to HES 2 February 2021
