by Hornbeam » Tue Jun 13, 2023 8:55 pm
In the particular area I was thinking about no Mines NE but unexploded ordnance from the Tank firing, if you go to Google Earth to ref 54 deg, 23 min North, 0 deg 32min 53 West you will see the concrete road leading from the Whitby/Scarborough Road-to the hard standings for the Tanks to fire across the Moor at a moving Target which was on a railway line some distance away (as a pilot once said when towing an aerial target “ don’t forget I am towing the target not pushing it” ) I suppose the little motorised target driver felt the same. There was other targets scattered around the firing area to live fire at, old Tanks etc.
The rest of the Moor was indeed a Training Area for the Armed Forces to train on, being a boggy area I would guess that there will still be ordinance underfoot