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The Orcadians became increasingly uneasy as the frequency attacks by the Luftwaffe on civilians and trawlers resulting in causalities.
Hoxa Head was strategic during World War I and II in guarding the Orkney Islands, protecting the military assets, looking out over the main approach to Scapa Flow protecting an important Royal Navy base. There is an array of coastal gun and searchlight emplacements, with batteries on the Floatta. It is considered as the biggest I & II world war sites in the UK.
FOR SALE: World War I and II Relics
Hoxa Head: Scapa Flow Defences
During both world wars Scapa Flow was safe anchorage for the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet. The main entrances to the flow were heavily defended by booms and metal nets, mine fields and coastal gun batteries. This is part of the complex battery at Hoxa Head. The hillside is covered with concrete; two director towers, with their 6 inch gun houses, magazines and shelters; a fighting searchlight and three dispersed beam lights; several engine houses and lots of hut bases. The battery was designed to cover the Hoxa boom, anchored just north of the battery, with close range and rapid fire against the threat of MTBs.
The Battery commanded the Sound of Hoxa, the southern approach into Scapa Flow.
The World War II Balfour Battery was located on Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, and included gun and searchlight emplacement
For Sale: Land at Hoxa Head Bu of Hoxa, St. Margarets Hope, Orkney, KW17 2TW
FOR SALE BY UNCONDITIONAL ONLINE AUCTION.
112 acres or thereabouts of historically important land located in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Thought suitable for a variety of alternate uses, subject to appropriate consents.
The site was one of the most important strategic bases in the North of the UK during both the First and Second World War and is split into two parts
Hoxa Head extending approximately 19 Acres
bu Hoxa extending approximately 93 Acres
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