Cairnryan Harbour, Drummuckloch, Cairnryan Military Railway, Leffnol Camp
Military Camp (20th Century), Prisoner Of War Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Cairnryan Harbour, Drummuckloch, Cairnryan Military Railway, Leffnol Camp
Classification Military Camp (20th Century), Prisoner Of War Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Leffnoll Sidings; Several Burn
Canmore ID 90256
Site Number NX06NE 11.05
NGR NX 0795 6607
NGR Description Centred NX 0795 6607
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/90256
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX06NE 11.05 centred 0795 6607
(Formerly NX06NE 66)
A hutted camp situated on the N side of the Several Burn. Constructed as billets for most of the men engaged on the building and operation of the Cairnryan Military Railway (NX06NE 11.03 and NX06SE 94.00), and also on the grading of the site at Leffnoll railway yard.
Since demolished, the hut bases and layout of the camp appear on air photographs. (RCAHMSAP 1992, 1995).
M Christensen 1995 (two parts)
The accommodation camp, later prisoner-of-war camp is visible on vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 987, 3139-3140, flown 9 November 1945), which shows that there were at least 27 huts outside the fence enclosing the prison camp with a further 73, mainly Nissen huts within the perimeter fence. The perimeter fence is visible on the air photographs and this shows that the prisoner-of-war camp was a later construction as the fence-line crosses three hut bases on the N side, probably from the earlier accommodationt camp.
The original camp was built as an accommodation camp for personnel employed on the marshalling yard at Leffnol.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2006