Ungrazed field, Mortonhall
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Ungrazed field, Mortonhall
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 15 Sep 2023
There are numerous concrete bases and earthworks here. This was briefly an Army camp in 1940 before becoming a prisoner of war camp and in the immediate post war years it housed displaced persons. I would expect the bases were of Nissen huts.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.899555
Longitude
-3.188371