Barred entrance to military training area near Shrawardine

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Barred entrance to military training area near Shrawardine by Andrew Shannon as part of the Geograph project.

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Barred entrance to military training area near Shrawardine

Image: © Andrew Shannon Taken: 15 Dec 2021

This was a well used training area by American forces in the Second World War. The OS map still has “America” printed to describe the area. It still is used periodically by UK territorial units.

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

Image Location

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Latitude
52.73565
Longitude
-2.905753