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MoD Shoeburyness
Shoeburyness, Essex
Clock tower at Horseshoe Barracks, Shoeburyness
MoD Shoeburyness is located in Essex
MoD Shoeburyness
MoD Shoeburyness
Coordinates51°32′14″N 0°48′27″E / 51.53710°N 0.80741°E / 51.53710; 0.80741
TypeFiring Range
Site information
Open to
the public
Yes
Site history
Built1849 (1849)
In use1849–present

MoD Shoeburyness is a military installation at Pig's Bay near Shoeburyness in Essex.

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MOD Shoeburyness

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MoD Shoeburyness is a military installation at Pig's Bay near Shoeburyness in Essex. In 1849, the Board of Ordnance purchased land at South Shoebury with...

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Shoeburyness

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established in the parish of South Shoebury, later becoming MoD Shoeburyness. A garrison town, known as Shoeburyness, grew around the barracks, taking...

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Shoeburyness Depot

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London, Tilbury and Southend line and is near Shoeburyness station. To the east of the depot is MoD Shoeburyness and there is a rail connection into that site...

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Shoeburyness Boom

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this is designated a scheduled monument and marks the western edge of MoD Shoeburyness firing range, a restricted area. The rest was taken up in the 1960s...

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1885 Shoeburyness artillery accident

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superintendent of experiments at Shoeburyness (aged 30) Colonel Walter Aston Fox Strangeways, the commandant at Shoeburyness and superintendent of experiments...

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Gunners Park and Shoebury Ranges

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Road. Shoeburyness Old Ranges is closed to the public. Parts of the site were formerly part of MoD Shoeburyness. The description of Shoeburyness Old Ranges...

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Foulness Island

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island is now run by QinetiQ on behalf of the Ministry of Defence as MoD Shoeburyness with access to the island by non-residents subject to stringent times...

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Royal School of Artillery

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home defence units". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 27 August 2020. "MOD Shoeburyness – Timeline". QinetiQ Group. Retrieved 28 July 2016. "Artillery". armedforces...

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East Anglian Railway Museum

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to Manchester, both withdrawn from service in 2001, then stored at MOD Shoeburyness before being purchased in 2003. They represented the Class 101 DMU...

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South Harrow tube station

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line after failing at Edgware and it was removed in 2004 and sent to MOD Shoeburyness for storage and scrapping. Another 1972 Mark I unit (3205) in the original...

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The Great Egg Race

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picking abilities. 36 4 "Staying Aloft" Wing Commander Ken Wallis MOD Shoeburyness Hawtal Whiting British Caledonian 20 September 1983 (1983-09-20) Teams...

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Southall rail crash

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completion of the inquiry, power car 43173 was scrapped at a remote site, MoD Shoeburyness. As of 2021, power car 43163, which sustained minor damage in the accident...

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British Rail Class 308

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4-car sets. The Class 308 units were withdrawn and sent for storage at MoD Shoeburyness. The final three units, nos. 308138/157/158, were withdrawn in late...

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Llanmiloe

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Admiral) S.A Pears C.S.E R.N, the staff, newly recruited from Foulness and Shoeburyness, together with the experimental wing from Hythe, moved to Pendine in...

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Dartmoor Training Area

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: 2  During this time, the nation's main artillery training area was at Shoeburyness, where the guns fired out to sea. As technology advanced and ranges increased...

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The Broomway

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north, the main headways are or were: Suttons Head or Kennets Head, near Shoeburyness East Beach, which fell into disuse in 1867 after the reopening of Wakering...

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British Rail Class 309

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units were withdrawn in late 2000, and sent for storage at MoD Pig's Bay near Shoeburyness. Two of the units later saw further use in departmental service...

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Brompton Road tube station

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Archived from the original on 12 November 2011. Farmer, Ben (29 July 2013). "MoD to sell WWII Tube station command bunker". The Daily Telegraph. Archived...

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Royal Artillery

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the War Office) and the War Office School of Gunnery established in Shoeburyness in 1859. When the British East India Company was dissolved in 1862, its...

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British Rail Class 310

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benefitted from this exercise. The V train was scrapped at MoD Pig's Bay in Shoeburyness in 2007. While there were efforts online to acquire a single...

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Woolwich Garrison

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Royal Military Repository closed (much of its work having transferred to Shoeburyness). The Repository Woods remained in used for military training, however...

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Wickham trolley

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A narrow gauge Wickham trolley. The subject is ex-MOD and is based at the Amberley Museum Railway, Sussex...

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Woolwich Common

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practice came to an end in around 1873, when artillery training moved to Shoeburyness; but the saluting battery remained in operation in the 20th century....

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List of Army Cadet Force units

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Walden C Company - Billericay, Canvey Island, Leigh on Sea, Rayleigh, Shoeburyness, South Woodham Ferrers, Southend-on-Sea, and Wickford D Company - Blackheath...

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2002 Birthday Honours

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to Education and to the Hindu community in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. (Shoeburyness, Essex) Mrs Hazel Elizabeth Hamer. Administration Officer, Employment...

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