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Rod In Sussex
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Linnet,
it was still an Army training camp in the 1970s. A boy I was at school with was the son of the Camp Commandant. I trained there on a number of occasions at Pippingford Park when I was a Cadet and later with Territorial Army in the 1980s.
It was near the Crow and Gate Pub, but I have not been along there for some time and cannot recall what is still there. I will look when I am out that way
Rod
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Jones, Ellis, Barker, Bates, Hackney, Cooper, Kirk, Eyre, Davies, Harris, Doney & Pearce.
Sussex, Cornwall, Lincolnshire, to name but a few!
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forester
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Hello Jaguare,
It looks like Lye Green was a wartime camp only; it certainly wasn't in 1988, the date of my map. The location is further north-east than the Pippingford Park and Crowborough Training camps that Rod mentioned. To see Lye Green, put Friars Gate into multimap.com. If you want to get technical, the grid ref for Friars Gate is TQ497333.
The whole area around the forest was home to Canadian soldiers at that time. In fact my grandfather's farm was burnt down by them while they were stationed on it (by accident, I hasten to add).
Regards,
Phil
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Rod In Sussex
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Phil,
a word of warning about maps of the area. There was a "listening" station on the top of Ashdown Forest with massive ariel masts. This is long gone. But the War Office / MOD had a policy of not showing any "secret" military sites on the Ordnance Survey maps. (Joke was that if you could see it and it was not on the map, it was a secret!)
That something military is not on a map means very little!
Rod
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