What is recorded here

Torrance Castle is a second World War searchlight battery in South Lanarkshire, built to cut through darkness and expose what approached. The name Torrance still belongs to the castle, but the chamber may have contained tools, levers and dials rather than a domestic room.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Torrance Castle as Searchlight Battery (second World War). 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.

Torrance Castle was a Second World War searchlight battery used for air defense. It is remembered as part of Scotland's wartime infrastructure and defense network.

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