What is recorded here
Castletown Airfield is a bomb store in Caithness, Scotland. The wider site operated as a Second World War military airfield from May 1940 until April 1944, supporting the defence of Scapa Flow and Northern Scotland. The bomb store remains part of that older defensive place.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castletown Airfield as Bomb Store (20th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Castletown Airfield in Scotland was developed during World War II as a military airfield and bomb storage facility. It is remembered for its role in supporting Allied air operations and its contribution to the defense infrastructure of the United Kingdom during the war.
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