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241: 279:. The tracks were connected with each other at their northern and southern ends, and the tracks on either side of the running line were connected with each other by means of two tunnels under the GWR running lines. The tracks in the depot served various factories and stores, and the scale of the depot can be gauged that in a site measuring only 1.25 miles (2.01 km) from north to south, there were over 30 miles (48 km) of track: enough to cover the distance from Basingstoke to Reading and back. A spur northwards from the military yard reached the south side of 51: 67: 161: 74: 298:
The Central Ammunition Depot was served by the Garrison Church of St. Barbara (known locally as St. Barbara's Chapel). The register of baptisms (1956 to 1975) is now held by the National Archives, Kew. The stained glass window from St. Barbara's Chapel was removed to Bramley Church when the chapel
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for Exercise Blue Warrior. This exercise serves to confirm that the recruits can successfully operate in field conditions whilst demonstrating basic
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Bramley Ordnance Depot (known as Central Ammunition Depot Bramley from 1946) opened on the large areas of scrub land in north
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and sub divided into three areas as training facility. Area A is the smallest, where parts of the
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have been filmed. In Area B, located near to the camp's main base, there is the shell of a
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was filmed. This area has now been cleared and the site is undergoing soil treatment.
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airframes in various states of repair scattered throughout the site. In Area C the
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The Training Area is used regularly by recruits from Recruit Training Squadron,
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To The Warrior His Arms: the story of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1918-1993
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CAD Bramley closed in 1978, the School of Ammunition having relocated to
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test chamber. There are a number of other static helicopters including
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To enable both safe manufacture and storage of munitions, well spaced
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Following closure of the ammunitions depot, the facility was renamed
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two years earlier. The depot was then, however, taken over by the
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on a concrete training area, adjacent to which there is a
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in 1917 for the manufacture and storage of ammunition. A
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Bramley Ordnance Depot on a target dossier of the German
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Bramley Camp
Bramley, Hampshire

Bramley Training Area is located in Hampshire
51°19′29″N 1°3′48″W / 51.32472°N 1.06333°W / 51.32472; -1.06333
Ministry of Defence
British Army
War Office
British Army
Bramley, Hampshire
World War I
ammunition depot
Lapraik
21 Special Air Service

Luftwaffe
Hampshire
School of Ammunition
railway tracks
Great Western Railway
Basingstoke
Reading
Bramley station
World War II
London Transport
Piccadilly line
Kineton
US Army
ITV1
Midsomer Murders

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