Tracked tank firing ranges

Just South West of the Langsett Reservoir in Derbyshire there was a Tank training area.

However, we are told that this was many tens of years ago. Clearly the tanks made their mark on the landscape as the tank tracks are still clearly visible after all this time and the tracks do go on for a considerable distance.

I have a difficulty reconciling this in my mind as usually nature reclaims the scarring......unless there is still tank activity going on there covertly!

G4HFG wrote:

Just South West of the Langsett Reservoir in Derbyshire there was a Tank training area.

However, we are told that this was many tens of years ago. Clearly the tanks made their mark on the landscape as the tank tracks are still clearly visible after all this time and the tracks do go on for a considerable distance.

I have a difficulty reconciling this in my mind as usually nature reclaims the scarring......unless there is still tank activity going on there covertly!

The ground on that moorland is boggy in places and there is surface peat. It is popular with walkers and, I suspect, four wheel vehicle drivers who keep to the old trails. UXB shells found from time to time which means there are plenty more potential UXB buried in the peat to washed into the open through weathering.

That could be so, off roading is popular and it could be the only reason for the tracks. Good luck to the souvenir hunters.

As a youngster I was treated to a car trip with a friends parents and we went out into the Buxton area. We had a picnic then we kids went exploring across a field which was pock marked withe bomb creators. In later years I learned that Harpur Hill was was an ordinance store and it could have been that after the war some of the stores were disposed of forcefully. Wish that I could find this place again.

Graham

G4HFG wrote:

That could be so, off roading is popular and it could be the only reason for the tracks. Good luck to the souvenir hunters.

As a youngster I was treated to a car trip with a friends parents and we went out into the Buxton area. We had a picnic then we kids went exploring across a field which was pock marked withe bomb creators. In later years I learned that Harpur Hill was was an ordinance store and it could have been that after the war some of the stores were disposed of forcefully. Wish that I could find this place again.

Graham

Not difficult to find but it is/was a large site.

Harpur Hill was one of a number of RAF Reserve Ammunition Depots (RAD) this one assigned as 28 MU (Maintenance Unit) of No 42 Group, Maintenance Command.

The Harpur Hill thread is here:

www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/d...-hill-28-mu?start=70

I believe the Langsett range can be seen in this Historic England image. historicengland.org.uk/images-books/arch...RAF_58_1094_F22_0128

it is upside down in that north is at the bottom if you get my drift. Looking at the NLS map collection the names Range Moor and Range Moor Top appear on the post war OS maps

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G4HFG wrote:

You may not be able to visit this page because of:

an out-of-date bookmark/favourite
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you have no access to this page
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Shame!

Try this link to the source, if it doesn’t work I can try something else…..health warning you can spend a lot of time look at the images. historicengland.maps.arcgis.com/apps/web...470580901.1655300415

It is the Harpur Hill thread which does not appear to be working. -
The Harpur Hill thread is here:

www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/d...-hill-28-mu?start=70

Thanks

G4HFG wrote:

It is the Harpur Hill thread which does not appear to be working. -
The Harpur Hill thread is here:

www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/d...-hill-28-mu?start=70

Thanks

. www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/d...8-mu?start=70#171731