What is recorded here

Castletown Airfield guarded Scapa Flow from May 1940 until April 1944, using Wick as its parent station while a heavy anti-aircraft battery watched the northern sky. It is not a polished monument but a forgotten military camp where overgrown concrete and empty hut frames still mark the shape of urgent wartime work. The decontamination centre now holds cow manure instead of danger, and the missing hangars leave only a gap the grass has begun to fill.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castletown Airfield as Military Camp (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 was constructed by the British military during World War II as a training and operational airfield. It is remembered for its role in supporting Allied air operations and as an example of Scotland's contribution to the war effort.

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