Edinburgh, Craigentinny Golf Course, Z Battery
Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Craigentinny Golf Course, Z Battery
Classification Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ez1
Canmore ID 238958
Site Number NT27SE 5110
NGR NT 29036 74828
NGR Description Centred NT 29036 74828
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/238958
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 5110 centred 29036 74828
The remains of a 'Z' battery of c.60 unrotating fixed projectile rocket launchers (UP2 mounts) has been identified from post-war vertical aerial photographs (106G/Scot/UK 118, 6042-6044, flown 12 June 1946), situated at the S end of Craigentinney Golf Course about 300m S of the heavy anti-aircraft battery (NT27NE 160 ).
The Z battery is just visible as rows of soil marks interspersed by NW - SE paths. In addition, a cable trench is also visible crossing the area from E to W. A row of huts around the S perimeter fence of the golf course, probably for the accommodation of crew, forms a separate group to that of the anti-aircraft battery to the N.
Issued number EZ1 by the War Office, the Public Record Office documents (WO 166/11169) from 1943 show that this battery was supplied with 61 U2P type launcher units, a GL Mk II type radar set and was manned by the Home Guard. The radar set may have been the same as that supplied to the anti-aircraft battery (NT c.2882 7507).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 2003
