Recently I was given the chance to go up to the furthest far reaches of Scotland with one of my friends to do a delivery and of course the plan was to get all the work done and then do a few explores afterwards and on the way home whilst collecting other things. On the drive up I lost count of the amount of derelict buildings I pinned on my phone to check out but unfortunately due to the timings and having to do collections we only got around a few places. It was an incredible roadtrip though, in some seriously mixed weather going from no more than 12 degrees celsius in torrential rain on our arrival in the Orkney Islands to coming home to baking scorchio sunshine.
Of course one of the main places on the list to go when on the Orkney mainland island is Twatt - unfortunately all the road signs have long since been removed by the local council as they were stolen so often! Nowadays the only places you can find Twatt written on things other than souvenirs is the board outside Twatt Church, and the entrance to this former RNAS base, some history of which can be found below.
As of now the site is left as open farmland, with a few military buildings left as well as a lot of very large cows mooching about, the runways long since dug up and covered by grass. The stairs up to the control tower have all been cut away however you are able to access it on a guided tour we didn't have time to do. There's not a huge amount left to see as it's been empty for so long, but it was somewhere cool to say I've been at least! The pillboxes, built in an unusual style, are visible from the road that runs past the site but the field is full of the aforementioned very large cows so I didn't fancy a close encounter with one of them, the local farmer was also very evident nearby too.
Thanks for looking
Of course one of the main places on the list to go when on the Orkney mainland island is Twatt - unfortunately all the road signs have long since been removed by the local council as they were stolen so often! Nowadays the only places you can find Twatt written on things other than souvenirs is the board outside Twatt Church, and the entrance to this former RNAS base, some history of which can be found below.
As of now the site is left as open farmland, with a few military buildings left as well as a lot of very large cows mooching about, the runways long since dug up and covered by grass. The stairs up to the control tower have all been cut away however you are able to access it on a guided tour we didn't have time to do. There's not a huge amount left to see as it's been empty for so long, but it was somewhere cool to say I've been at least! The pillboxes, built in an unusual style, are visible from the road that runs past the site but the field is full of the aforementioned very large cows so I didn't fancy a close encounter with one of them, the local farmer was also very evident nearby too.
Thanks for looking
