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29 Nov 2009 22:49 - 13 Feb 2016 12:48 #1
by Peter Kirk
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
Bombing and Gunnery Ranges was created by Peter Kirk
Bombing and Gunnery Range Discussion threads are here
The list below has been pulled together from multiple sources, including books, National Archives and forum members.
It is very much a work in progress and it is hoped, with the help of forum members and further research to make this into one of the most complete lists on this subject.
Some locations may be repeated under different names. A number of locations have proved to be confusing and clarification is sought (e.g. Silloth and Millom ranges which have more than one location listed.
This listing is split into two parts due to character limits in posts.
The list below has been pulled together from multiple sources, including books, National Archives and forum members.
It is very much a work in progress and it is hoped, with the help of forum members and further research to make this into one of the most complete lists on this subject.
Some locations may be repeated under different names. A number of locations have proved to be confusing and clarification is sought (e.g. Silloth and Millom ranges which have more than one location listed.
This listing is split into two parts due to character limits in posts.
[B][U]Range Name County NGR Function[/U][/B]
Abbots Morton PBR
Aberlady Bay (RAF) Lothian NT461819 ATGR
Aberporth Cardiganshire Lat/Long i ATA
Admiralty Point Norfolk TF581252 ATGR
Adventurers Fen PBR
Aldbrough Yorkshire ATA
Aldeburgh Suffolk TM466580 PBR
Aldergrove County Antrim
Alderton Northamptonshire SP743478 PBR
Alkborough Lincolnshire SE883236 PBR
Allonby Bay Cumberland NY064405 ATG
Amble Bay Northumberland ATA
Angle Bay Pembrokeshire SM882031 PBR
Anglesey Anglesey ATA
Arboe Point County Tyrone H964753
Arbroath Bay Angus
Ards (South) County Down J590595 ATGR & ATA
Ashley Walk Hampshire SU205156 LBR & ATGR
Ashton Northamptonshire TL071891 PBR
Askham Westmorland SD196769 PBR
Aston Pigott Shropshire SJ343054 PBR
Aultmore PBR
Aust Gloucestershire ST572900 PBR
Babraham Cambridgeshire TL492513 PBR
Baggy Moor Shropshire SJ394270 PBR
Bagots Park Staffordshire SK099274 PBR
Balcary Point (A) Kirkudbright NX707419 PBR & ATG & LBR
Balcary Point (B) Kirkudbright NX948551 PBR & ATG & LBR
Balcary Point (C) Kirkudbright NX903545 PBR & ATG & LBR
Balcary Point (D) Kirkudbright NX987553 PBR & ATG & LBR
Ballacree Isle of Man NX433034 PBR
Ballaugh Isle of Man PBR
Ballure Kintyre NR699524 LBR
Ballymartin County Down
Banffshire ATA
Barbury Wiltshire SU151748 PBR
Barnstaple Bay Devon SS373287 ATGS
Barrow-in-Furness Lancashire SD159641 PBR
Barrowside PBR
Bassingham Fen Lincolnshire SK939605 PBR
Bearshanks Wood Northamptonshire SP994859 PBR
Beckingham Lincolnshire SK870545 ATG
Bedwin Sands Monmouthshire ST472861 ATG
Bellochantuy Argyll PBR
Berners Heath Norfolk TL798762 PBR
Berrow Flats Somerset PBR
Beversbrook Wiltshire PBR
Biggleswade PBR
Bishops Court County Down J641496 ATG
Black Head Cornwall SW777163 ATG
Black Walk Lincolnshire SE916025 PBR
Blackpits
Blackpool (North) Lancashire ATA
Blackpool (South) Lancashire ATA
Blackshaw Flats Dumfriesshire NY059648 ATG
Blind Man's Bay Arran
Bodney PBR
Bowmore Islay NR300597 PBR
Bracklesham Bay Sussex SZ765967 PBR & ATSR
Bradbury Carrs Durham NZ306255 PBR
Bradenham Norfolk TF918067 PBR
Braid Fell Wigtownshire NX114676 LBR & ATG
Brancaster Bay Norfolk PBR
Breast Sand Norfolk TF547262 PBR & LBR & ATG
Bridlington Bay (Skipsea) Yorkshire TA202495 PBR & LBR & ATG
Broughton Burrows Pembrokeshire SS412928 ATGR
Brownsea Island Dorset PBR
Brownslade Burrows Pembrokeshire SR895985 PBR
Buddo Rock NO565155 PBR
Buddon Ness Angus ATGR
Budle Bay (Air to Air) Northumberland NU091486
Budle Bay (Air to Ground) Northumberland NU141378
Budle Bay (No.1 Live) Northumberland NU157392
Budle Bay (No.2 Practice) Northumberland NU153383
Budworth Mere Cheshire SJ660765
Burgh By Sands Cumberland NY276597 ATG & PBR
Burghead
Burghead Bay Morayshire NJ071645 PBR & ATA & ATS
Butterwick Lincolnshire ATG
Buxey Suffolk PBR
Caerlaverock Dumfriesshire NY007657 ATGR
Calshot Hampshire SU491016 PBR
Camarthen Dyfd
Cannock Chase Staffordshire SJ986168 PBR
Cannon Heath Down Hampshire SU508564 PBR
Cardinganshire Bay Gwynedd
Carmel Head Anglesey SH298918 ATG
Carnwath Scotland NT037518 ATG
Carse Bay Dumfriesshire NX997614 PBR
Carsington Derbyshire SK248527 PBR
Cartmel Sands Lancashire SD329793 PBR
Castor Hanglands Northamptonshire TF114017
Chale Isle of wight SZ471780 ATG
Cherington Moor Shropshire SJ672185 PBR
Chesil Beach (Air to Ground) Dorset SUY629791 ATG
Chesil Beach (No.1) Dorset SY637765 PBR
Chesil Beach (No.2) Dorset SY606778 PBR
Chesil Beach (No.3) Dorset SY589805 PBR
Chetton Shropshire SO649908 PBR
Chichester Bay Sussex
Chilbolton Hampshire
Chiseldon Wiltshire
Chitterne Wiltshire PBR
Chivenor Devon SS452353 ATG
Christchurch Bay Dorset PBR
Churchtown County Tyrone J054845 ATG
Clayworth Nottinghamshire SK781873 PBR
Clifton Pastures Nottinghamshire SK55325 PBR
Clunas Scotland NH892430 LBR
Clynnog Wales SH452464 PBR
Cockerham (No.2) Lancashire SD430499 PBR
Cockerham (No.3) Lancashire LBR
Colne Point Essex ATA
Costa Hill Orkneys HY309304 ATG
Cowden Sands Yorkshire TA239409 PBR & LBR & ATGR
Craig Tara Ayrshire NS306192 ATS
Criccieth Caernarfonshire ATA
Crichel Down Dorset ST955113 LBR
Crimond (Rattray Head) Aberdeenshire NK246638 LBR
Cromer Suffolk ATA
Crossaig Argyll NR846511 PBR
Croydon Cambridgeshire
Culmhead Somerset ST198152 PBR
Cushendall County Antrim ATA
Dalgety Bay Fife NT164830 PBR
Daseleys Sands Lincolnshire TF568326 LBR
Dawlish Warren Devon SX990792 ATG
Dee Marshes Cheshire SJ291716 PBR
Dengie Flats (Air to Air) Essex ATA
Dengie Flats (Ground Targets) Essex TM035057 ATGR
Dengie Flats (North) Essex TM048069 PBR
Dengie Flats (South) Essex TM046036 PBR
Derbyshire ATA
Derrycrow County Down J003642 PBR
Dirleton East Lothian NT452815 ATG
Doddington Moor Northumberland NT989366 PBR
Donna Nook Lincolnshire TF434994 LBR, PBR & ATGR
Dornoch Sutherland
Drigg Cumberland SD047984
Drumbow Moss (Drumdow Moss??) Stranraer NX285562 PBR
Drumburgh Sands (High Level) Cumberland NY274611
Drumburgh Sands (Low Level) Cumberland NY274613 PBR
Druridge Bay (Air to Air) Northumberland
Druridge Bay (Air to Ground No 1) Northumberland NU275006 ATG
Druridge Bay (Air to Ground No 2) Northumberland NZ275965 ATG
Druridge Bay (Live Bombing) Northumberland NZ294980 LBR
Druridge Bay (Practice Bombing No 1 Northumberland NU292002 PBR
Druridge Bay (Practice Bombing No 2 Northumberland NZ298955 PBR
Ducks Hall Suffolk TL807484 PBR
Duddon Sands Cumberland SD197823 PBR
Dundrum Bay County Down
Dunnet Head Caithness ND194746 ATGR
Dunure Ayrshire NS234137 ATS
Dyffryn (Morfa Dyffryn) Merioneth SH574220 ATG
Dymchurch Kent
Eagle tower PBR
East Berkshire Downs ATA
East Hatley Cambridgeshire TL304521 PBR
Easton Down Wiltshire SU240362
Eaton Bray PBR
Eilean Choraidh Sutherland
Eldrig Moss Wigtownshire NX359661 PBR
Eledon ?
Ellington Huntingdon 171710 PBR
Elmdon Essex TL472384 PBR
Elmington Northamptonshire See Upton
Enford Down Wiltshire SU112493
Epperstone Nottinghamshire SK645504 PBR
Erisgeir Argyll NM381324 LBR & PBR
Eskmeals Cumberland
Fenham Flats Northumberland NU113393 PBR
Fenn's Moss Shropshire SJ499375 PBR
Fenton Lincolnshire SK848774 PBR
Fenton Nottinghamshire
Fifeness Fife ATS
Filey Bay Yorkshire ATA
Fisherman's Head Essex TR034929 PBR & ATG
Flamborough Yorkshire TA221692 PBR
Fleet (Weymouth) Dorset PBR
Flintshire ATA
Fowey Areas Cornwall ATA
Foxcote PBR
Frampton Sands Gloucestershire SO702056 PBR
Freiston Lincs
Freshwater Sands Pembrokeshire SM883002 ATGR
Frinton Essex ATA
Garvie Island Sutherland
Girvan Ayrshire NS262306 ATS
Glan Syfynwy (Rosebush) Pembrokeshire SN073302 PBR
Glooston Leicestershire SP757979 PBR
Gloucestershire ATA
Goldhanger Essex TL896060 PBR
Gooderstone Warren Norfolk TF792010 PBR
Goodwin Sands Kent ATGR
Goswick Sands Northumberland NU072444 LBR
Grandborough Warwickshire SP491656 PBR
Gransha Point County Down
Grassholm Pembrokeshire SM599093 LBR
Graveney Kent TR058648 ATG
Grendon Underwood Buckinghamshire SP659210 PBR
Grennan Moss Kirkcudbrightshire NX250615 PBR
Grimsby Humberside
Grimsthorpe Park Lincolnshire TF036217
Grimston Warren Norfolk TF678221 PBR
Gruinard Island Ross-shire
Gulland Rock Cornwall
Hag Dyke Yorkshire SD990733 (
Haile Sands Lincolnshire
Haisborough Sand Suffolk PBR
Hamilton Hill Lincolnshire TF123901 PBR
Hangmoor, Chobham Surrey SU915609
Happisburgh Norfolk TG406323 PBR
Harlaxton Lincolnshire SK903324 PBR
Hatson Y Orkneys ATS
Hatson Z Orkneys ATS
Hatston (Wide Firth) Orkneys PBR
Hells Mouth (Porth Neigl) (A) Caernarfonshire SH249257 PBR & ATG
Hells Mouth (Porth Neigl) (B) Caernarfonshire SH282252 PBR & ATG
Helmsley Moor Yorkshire SE585924 PBR
Herne Bay Kent ATA
Hertfordshire ATA
Hickling Nottinghamshire SK704282 PBR
Highworth Wiltshire
Hillesden Buckinghamshire SP680274 PBR
Hillmarton Wiltshire SU007760 PBR
Hinderwell Yorkshire PBR & ATA
Hog Park Point County Down J066673 PBR
Holbeach (Air to Ground Targets) Lincolnshire ATG
Holbeach (Live - earlier site) Lincolnshire TF462338 LBR
Holbeach (Live - later site) Lincolnshire TF437350 LBR
Holbeach (PBR No.1) Lincolnshire TF430346 PBR
Holbeach (PBR No.2) Lincolnshire TF472320 PBR
Holbrook Bay Suffolk PBR
Holmpton (Air to Air) Yorkshire TA459288 ATA
Holmpton (Air to Ground) Yorkshire TA370247 ATG
Holy Island (Air to Ground No.1)
Northumberland NU072444 ATG
Holy Island (Air to Ground No.2)
Northumberland NU116431 ATG
Holy Island (Live) Northumberland NU056493 LBR
Holy Island (Practice) Northumberland NU066465 PBR
Holyhead Bay Anglesey SH294915 ATG & ATA
Honey??????? Moor PBR
Horton Northumberland NU021329 ATG
Husbands Bosworth PBR
Ibsley Hampshire SU169093 PBR
Idlicote Hill Warwickshire SP284424 PBR
Ilfracombe Devon ATA
Imber Wiltshire
Ingham PBR
Ingoldmells Lincolnshire TF582696 ATG
Inner Westmark Lincolnshire TF530302 ATGR
Innes Links Scotland NJ265679 PBR
Inskip (Air to sea) Lancashire ATS
Inskip (Buoy) Lancashire PBR
Inskip (Exercise Range) Lancashire ATS
Inskip (Outer) Lancashire PBR
Inskip (Torpedo) Lancashire ATS
Iona sound Orkneys NM343137 LBR
Islay (Claggan Bay) Scotland NR467534 PBR
Islay (Nave Island area) Islay NR204833 LBR
Jurby (Air to Air) Isle of Man ATA
Jurby (Live) Isle of Man NX419055 LBR
Jurby No. 1 Isle of Man SC326984 PBR
Jurby No. 2 Isle of Man NX363019 PBR
Jurby No.3 Isle of Man NX444054 PBR
Kennack Sands Cornwall SW740156 PBR
Kenton Norfolk PBR
Kererra Argyll NM828308 PBR
Kessingland Suffolk
Kilkeel County Down
Killedeas County Fermanagh
Killocraw Argyll NR657309
Killyleagh County Down J533511 PBR
Kilnsea Humberside
Kilquhockedale Moss Wigtownshire NX274692 PBR
Kinder Scout Derbyshire
Kingsbarn Fife PBR
Kingston Morayshire NJ316662 PBR
Kirton Marsh Lincolnshire TF355355 ATG & ATGR
Kyloe Berwickshire NU097396No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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[B][U]Range Name County NGR Function[/U][/B]
Lady Isle Ayrshire NS275295 LBR
Lakenheath Suffolk TL755816 PBR
Lambourn Down Berkshire SU307840 ATG
Langrigg Cumberland NY155473 PBR
Languard Suffolk PBR
Larkhill Wiltshire
Lavendon Buckinghamshire SP906552 PBR
Lea Marsh Lincolnshire SK810870 PBR
Leman Bank North Sea ATA
Leuchars
Leven Seat West Lothian
Leverton Lincolnshire TF450480 LBR
Leysdown (Bombing) Kent TR052705 PBR
Leysdown (Gunnery) Kent TR045703 ATG
Leysdown (RP) Kent TR048704 ATGR
Lilstock Somerset ST178473 PBR & LBR & AA
Lilstock Somerset ST164454 ATG & ATGR
Lindsway Bay Dyfdd?
Links Of Innes Morayshire PBR
Little Gurness HY380267 PBR
Little Holm Shetlands HU379096 ATGR
Little Scares Dumfriesshire NX263345 LBR
Littlestone Kent TR088263 PBR & ATG
Llandedr (Tremadog Bay) Merioneth ATGR
Llanelli Dyfedd
Llangennith Glamorganshire SS411918 ATG
LLangrigg
Lligwy Bay Anglesey SH501880 PBR & ATG & ATGR
Loch a'Chairn Bhain Sutherland
Loch Eriboll Sutherland
Loch Striven Argyll NS071783 Special ops
Loe Pool Cornwall
Longdon Worcestershire SO825365 PBR
Lough Erne County Fermanagh H063615 PBR & ATS & ATGR
Lough Foyle County Londonderry
Lough Hog Park Point County Down J075690 PBR & ATG
Lough Neagh County Antrim J085797 PBR
Lower Hogshaw Buckinghamshire SP753246 PBR
Lowestoft North Sea ATA
Luce Bay (A) Wigtownshire NX124455 PBR & ATG & LBR
Luce Bay (B) Wigtownshire NX155405 PBR & ATG & LBR
Luce Bay (C) Wigtownshire NX124531 PBR & ATG & LBR
Luce Bay (D) Wigtownshire NX147555 PBR & ATG & LBR
Luce Bay (E) Wigtownshire NX170547 PBR & ATG & LBR
Lunan Bay Angus NO691497 ATG & ATA & PBR
Lyme Bay Dorset SY612804 LBR
Macrahannish Bay Argyll ATGR
Maddington Down Wiltshire SU021433 PBR
Maenclochog Pembrokeshire SN092266 ATGR
Manton Common Lincolnshire SE929035
Marcham Berkshire SU455944 PBR
Marcross Sth Glamorgan SS925678 ATG
Margam Sands (A) Glamorganshire SS775812 PBR & ATG
Margam Sands (B) Glamorganshire SS783778
Margam Sands (C) Glamorganshire SS752841
Margam Sands (D) Glamorganshire SS760851
Margate Kent TR318713 ATS
Maryport Cumberland
Masham Moor Yorkshire SE095788 ATG
Maughold Head Isle of Man ATA
Melbost Sands Hebrides NB456346 PBR
Mersea Essex TM007147 PBR
Mersea Flats Essex TM068123 LBR
Millersford Hampshire SU203175 LBR
Millin Bay County Antrim J637495 ATGR
Millom (Air to Air) Cumberland ATA
Millom (North) Cumberland SD073878 PBR & ATG
Millom (South) Cumberland SD107800 PBR & ATG
Millom Area Cumbria ATA
Misson Nottinghamshire SK712975 PBR
Misterton Nottinghamshire
Mochrum Wigtownshire NX336511 PBR
Monifieth Angus LBR & PBR
Montrose Basin Angus NO692582 PBR
Moray Firth North Ross & Cromarty ATS
Moray Firth South Ross & Cromarty ATS
Morrich More Ross & Cromarty NH835845 ATG
Morte Bay Devon SS442418 PBR
Mount Stewart County Down J534693 PBR
Mowsley Leicestershire SP643870 PBR
Mullartown County Down J382212 ATGR
Musselburgh (A) Midlothian NT346735 PBR & ATG & ATA
Musselburgh (B) Midlothian NT361746 PBR & ATG & ATA
Nevin ATA
New Zealand Farm Wiltshire
Newborough Warren PBR & ATS & ATA
Newcome Sands Suffolk TM545851 ATS
Newport Bay Pembrokeshire SN031403 PBR & ATGR
Newton Downs
Nigg Bay Rosshire NH803723 PBR
North Berwick Lothian NT524857 ATGR
North Channel Between NI & Scot NW518992
North Fens ATA
North Frodingham Yorkshire TA099511 PBR
North Somercotes Lincolnshire TF426999
North Wootton Marshes (ATG) Norfolk TF623278 ATG
North Wootton Marshes No. 2 Norfolk TF615279 PBR
North Wootton Marshes No.1 Norfolk TF618272 PBR
North Yorkshire ATA
Northam Devon SS425299 ATGR
Northamptonshire ATA
Noup Head, Unst Orkneys LBR
Odstone Down Berkshire SU296832 PBR
Ogmore by Sea Glamorganshire SS860756 PBR & ATGR
Okehampton
Oldbury Sands Bristol Channel ST575918 PBR
Orfordness Suffolk TM456503 PBR & ATA
Otmoor Oxfordshire SP570140 PBR
Outer Gabbard North Sea TM836418 ATA
Owthorpe Nottinghamshire 663321 PBR
Oxfordshire ATA
Oxwich Head Glamorganshire ATA
Pagham Harbour Sussex SZ871970 PBR & ATGR
Paston Norfolk TG329354 ATGR & PBR & ATG
Peak District Derbyshire
Peel Isle of Man
Pegwell Bay Kent
Pembrey (Air to Air) Carmarthenshire SN360999 FTC
Pembrey (Air to Ground) Carmarthenshire SN374032 FTC
Pembrey (Live Range) Carmarthenshire SN351033 FTC
Pembrey (PBR No.1) Carmarthenshire SN356051 FTC
Pembrey (PBR No.2) Carmarthenshire SN380011 FTC
Penrhos (East) No.2 Caernarfonshire SH413347 PBR
Penrhos (West) No.3 Caernarfonshire SH365316 PBR
Penrhos No.1 Caernarfonshire SH465355 LBR
Penychain Merioneth PBR
Pepperbox Hill Wiltshire SU225251 PBR & ATGR
Pershore ATA
Perwick Bay Isle of Man PBR
Pickering Yorkshire SE776813 PBR
Pilling Sands Lancashire SD387500 ATGR
Pilsey Island Sussex SU770006
Pilton Northamptonshire TL000851 PBR
Point of Ayre Isle of Man ATA
Poole Bay Dorset ATA
Port Arnol Scotland NB297494 PBR
Port Isaac Bay Cornwall SX015835 PBR
Port Quin Bay Cornwall SW970811 ATG
Port Soderick Isle of Man PBR & ATSR
Porthcawl (West) Margam Sands Glamorganshire SS846750 PBR & ATA & ATG
Porthcawl East Glamorganshire
Portland Bill Dorset ATA
Porton Down Wiltshire PBR & LBR
Portrush County Antrim PBR
Portsoy Banffshire ATSR
Portstewart County Antrim C82663917
Preesall Lancashire SD375494 PBR
Prestatyn Flintshire SJ115849 ATGR
Preston Capes Northamptonshire SP590550 PBR
Priors Hardwicke Warwickshire SP455566 PBR
Purton Gloucestershire SO693044
Quarrendon Buckinghamshire SP787184 PBR
Racks Moss Dumfriesshire NY023725 PBR
Radway Warwickshire SP353481 PBR
Ragdale Leicestershire SK683195 PBR
Rams Island Lough Neagh
Ramsey Isle of Man
Ramsey Bay Isle of Man SC469988 PBR
Rattray Head Aberdeenshire
Ravenglass Cumberland ATA
Ray Sand Essex TR032991 PBR & ATGR
Rearsby Leicsetershire PBR
Reculver Kent
Red Head Angus NO700472 ATA
Redgrave Fen Suffolk TM047800 PBR
Roman Hole Lincolnshire TF154961 ATG
Ronaldsway (Air to air) Isle of Man ATA
Ronaldsway (Depth Charge Area) Isle of Man ATS
Ronaldsway (Dive Bombing Area) Isle of Man ATS
Ronaldsway (Excercise Area E)) Isle of Man
Ronaldsway (Exercise Area W) Isle of Man
Ronaldsway (Torpedo No.1) Isle of Man ATS
Ronaldsway (Torpedo No.2) Isle of Man ATS
Roos Yorkshire TA274299 PBR
Rose Valley Morayshire NJ109662 PBR
Rosehearty No 1 Aberdeenshire NJ908667 PBR
Rosehearty No 2 Aberdeenshire PBR
Roseisle
Ross Links Northumberland NU140376 ATGR
Rufford Nottinghamshire 632626 PBR
Runness Angus PBR
Rushford Norfolk TL900813
Rye Bay Kent TQ909154 PBR & ATGR
Saddleworth Moor Lancashire SE042055 ATGR
Salisbury (North) ATA
Salisbury (South) ATA
Salters Bank Lancashire ATA
Sand Bay Somerset
Sand Point Somerset ST322660 ATGR
Sandwich Moor PBR
Savernake ATA
Scilly Isles Cornwall SV930111 PBR
Seal Sands Durham NZ527250 PBR
Seaton Delaval Northumberland NZ339781
Selsey Sussex SZ821940 PBR & ATG & ATGR
Selsey Bill Sussex SZ925876 ATA
Sennybridge Powys
Setchey Norfolk TF650142 PBR
Sgeir Dhonn Argyll NM828308
Shalstone Buckinghamshire SP648390 PBR
Shandwick Highland ATA
Shell Island Merioneth SH553267
Sherrifs Muir Stirlingshire NN839022
Shingle Street Suffolk
Shipwash Suffolk LBR
Shoeburyness Essex
Shotteswell Warwickshire SP434468 PBR
Shutlanger Northamptonshire SP734480 PBR
Silloth (North) Cumberland NY134563 PBR
Silloth (South) Cumberland NY054466 LBR
Sinclairs Bay Caithness ND354571 PBR & LBR
Skady Tower Island Lough Neagh H998845 PBR
Skegness Lincolnshire ATA
Skelbo Sutherland NH810948 ATGR
Skipness Argyll NR906565 PBR
Skipsea (Air to Ground) Yorkshire ATG
Skipsea (Live) Yorkshire TA215524 LBR
Skipsea (North) Yorkshire TA201554 PBR
Skipsea (South) Yorkshire TA216511 PBR
Snape Yorkshire SE284838 PBR
Snettisham Norfolk TF649339 ATGR
Solway Firth Ranges
Solway Moss Dumfriesshire
South Cambrian Mountains ATA
South Fens Norfolk ATA
South Fens ATA
South Pennines ATA
Southfield Farm Leicestershire
Southport Lancashire SD380219 ATGR
Southwold Suffolk ATA
Spaldington Yorkshire SE749323 PBR
Spaunton Moor Yorkshire SE712932 PBR
Spey Bay NJ411907 LBR
Spitalgate Lincolnshire PBR
Spithead "Z" Hampshire ATS
Spurn Head Humberside TA411140 ATG
St Abbs Head Northumberland NT872701 ATGR
St Albans Head Dorset ATA
St Anns Head Isle of Man ATS
St Austell Bay Cornwall SX042499 PBR
St Austell Bay Cornwall SX052510 ATGR
St Brides Bay (Druidston) Pembrokeshire SM848164 ATGS
St Brides Bay (Madocs Haven) Pembrokeshire SM847176 PBR
St Brides Bay (Musselwick) Pembrokeshire SM779094 PBR
St Brides Bay (Warey Haven) Pembrokeshire SM800117 PBR
St Catherines Point IOW SZ499751 ATS
St Fergus Banffshire NK115512 ATGR
St Thomas's Head Somerset ST348669
St Tudwal's Island Gwynedd SH341259
Stack Skerry Orkneys HX560178 LBR
Stackyard Green Suffolk TL971458 PBR
Staffordshire ATA
Staithes (Hinderwell) Yorkshire NZ772200 PBR
Stanford Warren Norfolk 872936
Stert Flats Somerset ST262470 PBR & LBR & ATG
Stokes Bay Hampshire
Stonehaven Kincardineshire
Strangford Lough (South Island) County Down J566666
Strensall Yorkshire SE645594 PBR
Studland Bay Dorset SZ047823 ATGR
Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire TF440340
Sutton Walk Suffolk TM296480 PBR
Sykehouse Yorkshire SE646160 PBR
Tain Ross NH847836 ATG
Tain Ross NH865839 ATG
Tain (Dornoch) Ross NH770872 PBR
Tain (Morrich More) Ross NH828842 PBR
Tal-y-Bont Gwynedd SH583208 ATG
Teignmouth Devon LBR & PBR & ATA
Tentsmuir Fifeshire NO511258 PBR & ATA
Tentsmuir Fifeshire NO502248 ATGR & ATG
The Fleet Dorset
The Gobbins County Antrim J485980
Theddlethorpe (A) Lincolnshire TF461973 PBR & ATGR & LBR
Theddlethorpe (B) Lincolnshire TF451969 PBR & ATGR & LBR
Theddlethorpe (C) Lincolnshire TF480925 PBR & ATGR & LBR
Theddlethorpe (D) Lincolnshire TF497921 PBR & ATGR & LBR
Theddlethorpe (E) Lincolnshire TF493890 PBR & ATGR & LBR
Thrapston ATA
Tiree (Gott Bay) Argyll NM053463 PBR
Titchfield Haven Hampshire PBR
Titchwell (Air to Ground 20mm) Norfolk TF746449 ATG
Titchwell (Air to Ground RP) Norfolk TF748449 ATGR
Titchwell (No.1) Norfolk TF755465 PBR
Titchwell (No.2) Norfolk TF745445 PBR
Toft Grange PBR
Tollesbury Essex TL947082 PBR
Torranan Rock Wigtownshire NM275139 LBR & PBR
Traeth Dy Merioneth SH570339 ATG
Trawsfynnydd Merioneth SH695365 ATG & LBR
Trelliga Cornwall SX044845 ATG
Trent Valley ATA
Trevallen Down Pembrokeshire SR972930
Trevose Head Cornwall LBR
Turnberry (A) Ayrshire NS180006 PBR & ATG
Turnberry (B) Ayrshire NS234137 PBR & ATG
Upnor Kent
Upton Northamptonshire TF114017 PBR
Wainfleet Lincolnshire TF545552 LBR
Wainfleet Lincolnshire TF532539 PBR
Walmore Common Gloucestershire SO743152 PBR
Wardley Rutland SK835012 PBR
Warpsgrove Oxfordshire SU659997 PBR
Warren Flats Hampshire SZ410960 PBR
Warton Sands Lancashire SD476733
Watergate Bay Cornwall ATA
Weeton Yorkshire TA351186 ATGR
Wells on Sea Norfolk
Wellsworthy Devon
Welsford Moor Devon SS283205 PBR
West Bay Dorset SY475898 ATGR
West Berkshire Downs ATA
West Down Wiltshire SU069688 LBR & ATGR & PBR
Weybourne Norfolk ATA
Weymouth Bay Dorset ATA
Whiteford Burrows Pembrokeshire SS443950 PBR
Whittlesey No. 1 Cambridgeshire TF335005 PBR
Whittlesey No. 2 Cambridgeshire 311997 PBR
Widdrington nr Morpeth Northumberland NZ278959
Wigtown Area Dumfries and Gallowa ATA
Wigtown Bay Wigtownshire NX487411 PBR & ATA
Winterton Norfolk TG486216 ATA & ATS
Wolverton Marsh Norfolk
Woodcott Down Hampshire SU439562 PBR
Woodwick Orkneys
Woolfox PBR
Wrangle Flats Lincolnshire TF456499 ATGR
Yarburgh Lincolnshire TF359939
Yardley Hastings Northamptonshire PBR
Ynys Gwylan Bach Caernarfonshire SH182242 PBR
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09 Oct 2019 13:44 #3
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Hello,
I'm new to this group.
I noticed in the above list of ranges, the Clayworth (Nottinghamshire) bombing range is identified at grid ref SK781873. However, this grid ref is actually at North Wheatley, approximately 5km East of Clayworth..
I grew up in Clayworth in the early 1970s, and we used to play in one of two old observation towers that were in the area of SK721873, just a few hundred metres to the West of Clayworth which is only 1 digit different from the above grid. Is it possible that an error was made in transcribing the grid ref?
My mother was WAAF/Air Ministry during WW2 and she always referred to them as the "bombing towers".
Recently I visited the area and it looks as though the towers have long since been demolished, but I was hoping to at leat find the remains of footings or even small piles of rubble to indicate their presence, but unfortunately I could see nothing as the fields were full of very tall and dense maize.
I'm just interested in the history of the towers and the range. From what I can discover on the web, there was a bombing range at Clayworth which was at some point used by Polish members of No 18 (Polish) Operational Training Unit of 93 OTU (RAF).
Any information people have on the history of the Clayworth range would be of interest?
Best wishes
Paul
I'm new to this group.
I noticed in the above list of ranges, the Clayworth (Nottinghamshire) bombing range is identified at grid ref SK781873. However, this grid ref is actually at North Wheatley, approximately 5km East of Clayworth..
I grew up in Clayworth in the early 1970s, and we used to play in one of two old observation towers that were in the area of SK721873, just a few hundred metres to the West of Clayworth which is only 1 digit different from the above grid. Is it possible that an error was made in transcribing the grid ref?
My mother was WAAF/Air Ministry during WW2 and she always referred to them as the "bombing towers".
Recently I visited the area and it looks as though the towers have long since been demolished, but I was hoping to at leat find the remains of footings or even small piles of rubble to indicate their presence, but unfortunately I could see nothing as the fields were full of very tall and dense maize.
I'm just interested in the history of the towers and the range. From what I can discover on the web, there was a bombing range at Clayworth which was at some point used by Polish members of No 18 (Polish) Operational Training Unit of 93 OTU (RAF).
Any information people have on the history of the Clayworth range would be of interest?
Best wishes
Paul
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09 Oct 2019 13:56 #4
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Hello,
The entry for Cromer says it's in Suffolk, but Cromer is on the Norfolk coast.
There is a reference to a possible nearby range/target area close by at Kelling Heath ... info is here: www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-detai...67-bb1c-c3137d02dda3
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Pauk
The entry for Cromer says it's in Suffolk, but Cromer is on the Norfolk coast.
There is a reference to a possible nearby range/target area close by at Kelling Heath ... info is here: www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-detai...67-bb1c-c3137d02dda3
Regards
Pauk
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Paul,
Thanks for the information on Clayworth. I will post on a separate thread the details I have for Clayworth.
The various sources of information for my original list of ranges was normally wartime with Cassini Grids and it was a few years before I could double check all those locations with some still suspect. On top of this are my own typos.
Updating that list is not as easy on the current forum so I have put it off. My current lists have many corrections and confirmed locations and this includes many wartime grid references that were mistypes at the time. I have also added about 25% more ranges, probably more, since then. No idea why Cromer was down as Suffolk, especially as my Dad lives in Hunstanton! Currently the counties are a mixture of wartime boundaries and modern ones so any remaining discrepancies will be sorted once I decide which to go for
Just checked, I have 892 ranges listed, although some are unconfirmed.
Kelling Heath is one of those that cropped up a few times because of that entry but I have found no evidence to support an air bombing range.
EDIT: Just realised my info on Clayworth will be behind the pay wall so I will add it here along with a mp showing the information gleaned from aerial photographs.
I wasn't aware that the Clayworth quadrant shelter near St Peter's Lane was still around in the seventies nor that the southern one was assuming my suspected location is correct.
Controlled by Finningley (eg 1944) and Lindholme with a 650yd radius, used day & night and lit electrically. The range was closed on 10/08/1945. The target at SK 71955 87297 was a triangle. Cleared for TI dropping by 1944. The quadrants were at SK 72138 87927 (with arrow) and SK 72526 87100 (unconfirmed). Used by 18 OTU at Worksop from November 1943. From an August 1944 document (AIR 2/6413) the inner requistioned area was controlled by DR51 whilst the outer area was under DR52. The danger radius was 650yds with a maximum permitted bombing height of 16,000ft. No information regarding opening date has been found.
Thanks for the information on Clayworth. I will post on a separate thread the details I have for Clayworth.
The various sources of information for my original list of ranges was normally wartime with Cassini Grids and it was a few years before I could double check all those locations with some still suspect. On top of this are my own typos.
Updating that list is not as easy on the current forum so I have put it off. My current lists have many corrections and confirmed locations and this includes many wartime grid references that were mistypes at the time. I have also added about 25% more ranges, probably more, since then. No idea why Cromer was down as Suffolk, especially as my Dad lives in Hunstanton! Currently the counties are a mixture of wartime boundaries and modern ones so any remaining discrepancies will be sorted once I decide which to go for
Just checked, I have 892 ranges listed, although some are unconfirmed.Kelling Heath is one of those that cropped up a few times because of that entry but I have found no evidence to support an air bombing range.
EDIT: Just realised my info on Clayworth will be behind the pay wall so I will add it here along with a mp showing the information gleaned from aerial photographs.
I wasn't aware that the Clayworth quadrant shelter near St Peter's Lane was still around in the seventies nor that the southern one was assuming my suspected location is correct.
Controlled by Finningley (eg 1944) and Lindholme with a 650yd radius, used day & night and lit electrically. The range was closed on 10/08/1945. The target at SK 71955 87297 was a triangle. Cleared for TI dropping by 1944. The quadrants were at SK 72138 87927 (with arrow) and SK 72526 87100 (unconfirmed). Used by 18 OTU at Worksop from November 1943. From an August 1944 document (AIR 2/6413) the inner requistioned area was controlled by DR51 whilst the outer area was under DR52. The danger radius was 650yds with a maximum permitted bombing height of 16,000ft. No information regarding opening date has been found.
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Hi Peter,
Thank you for the very thorough response. I was delighted to read your letter, which has helped to remind me of my ( very happy ) childhood, and I will sign up as a member as a donation of support to a worthy cause.
The location of both towers looks about right, from my memory anyway.
I left there in 1976 ( at the age of 10 ). I can recall being sat on the first floor ledge, looking out over the fields, and then hurtling towards the ground as another kid gave me a shove in the back. I landed on my butt, on a molehill which was a stroke of luck !! , and suffered no ill effects other than numb legs for a few minutes. All part of our adventures growing up.
Best
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Thank you for the very thorough response. I was delighted to read your letter, which has helped to remind me of my ( very happy ) childhood, and I will sign up as a member as a donation of support to a worthy cause.
The location of both towers looks about right, from my memory anyway.
I left there in 1976 ( at the age of 10 ). I can recall being sat on the first floor ledge, looking out over the fields, and then hurtling towards the ground as another kid gave me a shove in the back. I landed on my butt, on a molehill which was a stroke of luck !! , and suffered no ill effects other than numb legs for a few minutes. All part of our adventures growing up.
Best
Paul
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I never knew of a range at Dornoch. Morrich More is the range at Tain, but Dornoch Im intrigues about, anyone know anything about it?
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Dornoch Firth was the original name for the ranges on Morrich More. The map below shows the main targets from opening until the mid fifties, however it excludes another bombing target on the north of Dornoch Firth on Cuthill Sands. This was part of Tain ranges but was often referred to as Dornoch and the target was still visible, including much of the decking, in 1988. The piles for the eastern target in the dunes north of the Inver Channel are also still visible, although deteriorating fast.
The area around Tain was awash with ranges by the end of the war and there was some difficulty in catering for the needs of the RAF, the FAA and the RN. In the last year of the war bombing ranges were added at Portmahomack, Rockfield and Tarbat Ness and two air to ground firing ranges were added at Skelbo (Coul Links) and Golspie, both north of Dornoch, to replace the air to ground ranges on Morrich More that had to close due to the proximity of the enlarged airfield at Tain.
Tain ranges has a complicated history and some of its post war use, especially the LABS range are a bit sketchy and inconsistent.
The area around Tain was awash with ranges by the end of the war and there was some difficulty in catering for the needs of the RAF, the FAA and the RN. In the last year of the war bombing ranges were added at Portmahomack, Rockfield and Tarbat Ness and two air to ground firing ranges were added at Skelbo (Coul Links) and Golspie, both north of Dornoch, to replace the air to ground ranges on Morrich More that had to close due to the proximity of the enlarged airfield at Tain.
Tain ranges has a complicated history and some of its post war use, especially the LABS range are a bit sketchy and inconsistent.
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