SUMMER CAMP
CAMP FACTS SITE HISTORIES CAMP LOCATIONS AROUND THE UK
12.OTTERBURN Home to the UK’s largest firing range, artillery can be clearly heard from Lindisfarne to the north-east and Fontburn Reservoir in the south
1.ALTCAR 16,000 sailors, soldiers, airmen and women or service personnel learn rifle skills at Altcar every year
13.PENALLY
2.BARRY BUDDON Barry Buddon (known as Barry Butlins) has been home to a salmon fishing enterprise, a racecourse and a lifeboat station
In March 2014 flocks of twitchers came to Penally to see a great spotted cuckoo, last seen in the UK in 2009, when it flew to Wales instead of Spain
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3.BECKINGHAM The Lincolnshire camp dates back to Norman times as a hunting chase
14.SENNYBRIDGE Home to many birds of prey including the red kite, goshawk, peregrine falcon and merlin
4.BRUNSWICK (PIRBRIGHT)
15.ST MARTIN’S PLAIN Home to a German prisoner-ofwar camp during WWII
If you’re out at night look out for (nocturnal) muntjac deer spotted in the region
16.STRENSALL
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Strensall was cited in the Domesday Book in 1086 and was named Streonaeshalch
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German recruits for the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) received armoured training here from 1962 until the 1990s
17.SWYNNERTON Reports suggest the site is home to a number of peacocks, which occasionally run loose
6.CHICKERELL RANGE During WW1 the area was a base for thousands of wounded Australian and New Zealand troops evacuated after Gallipoli
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7.CROWBOROUGH Parts of the Doctor Who story ‘The Curse of Fenric’, broadcast in 1989, were filmed here
18.WARCOP Established in 1942 as a tank gunnery range, tanks still use it to this day
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19.WATHGILL Yorkshire Air Ambulance service based one of its helicopters at Wathgill during the 2014 Tour de France
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8.LONGMOOR Damage to local roads when construction work started (in 1900) prompted the Army to trial pneumatic tyred lorries for the first time
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9.LYDD Lydd camp includes an urban training area with a variety of different street scenes
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Site includes the ‘ghost village’ of Imber – villagers were evicted in 1943 and never allowed back
21.WEST TOFTS Scenes in the Dad’s Army TV series were filmed in and around the West Tofts area
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10.NESCLIFF Nescliff was constructed during WWII as an ammunition depot
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11.OKEHAMPTON The Army’s annual Ten Tors event starts from Okehampton Camp
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20.WESTDOWN
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Antis the German Shepherd dog and his owner took part in 30 airborne missions from RAF East Wretham in WWII. Antis received the Dickin medal in 1949
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22.WRETHAM
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