AA Battery Limekilnburn Viewfield

Emplacement 2007

A postwar anti-aircraft battery was sited to the south of Hamilton, near Limekilnburn. Site number CD36a. Part of the Clyde Postwar AA Defences, the site was also known as Viewfield.

See also the page for AA Battery Limekilnburn Thorniehill, a World War II battery located in the same area, a few metres to the south.

The area is said to remain above any mist that forms in the valley, and that aircraft were stationed there during both world wars. Subsequent to World War I, the site is said to have been the winter home of a flying circus (unnamed).

The battery was equipped with four advanced emplacements each containing an engine room and computer room, and would have mounted 5.25-inch guns, with further buildings on the site, for an engine room, computer and radar room, and accommodation.

Records indicate that guns were mounted in 1952, visible in RAF aerial photographs taken ib 1954, but were removed by July 1956 and disposed of as scrap McConnell of Coatbridge.

The remains of four gun emplacements, some of which are flooded, survive on the site, together with related buildings. Parts of the perimeter fence also remain, as does a small wood of fir trees, which was probably planted to screen the battery site

Visited in 2006, the site was observed to be under increasing pressure from adjacent private development, with individual houses (as opposed to a housing development) being built on the land immediately adjacent to the battery.

As of 2008, development of the site has progressed, with construction echoing the layout and plan of the original emplacement structure. The photographs shown on this page were generously provided by a visitor with access to the location, which is residential, and therefore private.