Geograph - photograph every grid square

During the Second World War, so-called Starfish decoys were carefully designed to provide very convincing false targets for enemy bombers. See Link (at Secret Scotland) for a full explanation; Link (at the same site) for a detailed description (with many photos) of the particular site shown here; Link for my own article on the topic; Link for an annotated satellite view; and Link for nearby bomb craters, testimony to the decoy's effectiveness.

The woodland occupies 240 hectares (590 acres) that were acquired by the Woodland Trust Scotland in 2011. It is named after the Long Crags (or Lang Craigs), a line of cliffs — Link — making up the facade of the Kilpatrick Hills plateau. Lang Craigs Woodland is one of the 13 Commonwealth Woods, and is an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). New paths have been laid out (waymarkers were added in May 2015), and about 160 hectares of new native woodland planted.