Dartmoor Training Area
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The Dartmoor Training Area is a military training area on Dartmoor in Devon in southwest England. The area consists of approximately 13,000 hectares in the Dartmoor National Park.
MOD danger sign on Roos Tor
Dartmoor Preservation Association is one of the oldest environmental or amenity bodies in the UK. It was founded in 1883. It concerns itself with Dartmoor, a National Park in Devon, south-west England
Dartmoor Training Area
…Units, including some tanks, mobilised for the Suez Crisis in 1956 trained on Dartmoor, operating briefly in the Yes Tor area. In 1963 the Dartmoor Preservation Association (DPA) published a 24-page booklet entitled Misuse of a National Park which includes photographs of unexploded shells lying on the open moor, corrugated…
DPA logo 2023
Frontispiece of DPA book about Commons and Commoners' Rights, published 1890
DPA boundary stone at Sharpitor
Walkhampton Common pylons and power cables before undergrounding