Monument record 11622 - LEWIS, AIRD UIG, ROTOR RADAR SITE

NB03NW 14.01 centred 0493 3816

Camp Site (disused) [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1974.

Extends onto mapsheet NB03NE.

8: NB 0480 3820
RAF base
This tight group of abandoned buildings of various shapes and sizes sits 50m to the south of the RAF broadcasting station at the north end of the Aird Uig peninsula. Constructed between 1954 and 1956, it was abandoned in 1960. It consists largely of single storey flat roofed structures made of reinforced concrete with iron window frames. These buildings represent the offices and barracks for the late 1950s radio base at the headland. The only unusual buildings on this site are 4 prefabricated huts by the road on the north side of the site. These huts are separated from the camp by a wire fence, and may represent an earlier phase of use.
Burgess 1996, 25

This large accommodation camp site is situated immediately N of Aird Uig. There are still many buildings extant in differing states of repair.
This is a former RAF camp site for the radar site and some of the buildings have been taken over for private use with others being left derelict. The radar site is still active.
J Guy 2002; NMRS MS 810/12, 21-7

REPORT DATE: 22/04/2002

Christopher Burgess and Michael Church, 1996, Uig Landscape Survey: Interim Report 1 (Unpublished document). SWE41181.