Cultybraggan Camp

Cultybraggan was Camp 21, a prisoner of war camp, and it is one of the best preserved of its kind in Britain, with nearly all its huts still standing.

It held up to four thousand men. The first were Italians; later it became one of the two maximum-security camps in Britain for German prisoners, holding many of the most committed Nazis. After the war the army kept it on, and it remained in military use until 2004. In 2007 the people of Comrie bought it together, using Scotland's community right to buy, and the Comrie Development Trust now looks after it as a resource for the community.

The huts, the old administration block and a tall concrete tower can be seen from the camp's roads, and a short walk among them gives a strong sense of the place.