page_title: Wyke Regis Training Area
hierarchical_section_title: Wyke Regis Training Area
caption_attribution_description: English: Wyke Regis Bridging Hard The bridging hard is an army facility purpose built for engineer training on a wide range of different bridge types. The have numerous bridges and bridging situations such as those in the photo. The Fleet lagoon behind is used for water based training. Chesil beach can be seen in the background.
context_page_description: Wyke Regis Training Area is an army training area primarily located in the parish and town of Chickerell, but near to the parish of Wyke Regis in neighbouring Weymouth, Dorset, England. The training area is located at three different sites. It is part of the Ministry of Defence's Defence Training Estate, which covers 240,000 hectares of land across the country, used to train armed forces. Although mainly used by the army, the training area has allowed an increasing amount of public use of both the climbing facilities and adventure training over the last few years.
  When the firing range is in use, signs, restriction gates and red flags are used to require walkers to divert inland around the back of the range before returning to the Coastal Path.
  A map of the Chickerell parish boundary is here
context_section_description: Wyke Regis Training Area is an army training area primarily located in the parish and town of Chickerell, but near to the parish of Wyke Regis in neighbouring Weymouth, Dorset, England. The training area is located at three different sites. It is part of the Ministry of Defence's Defence Training Estate (DTE), which covers 240,000 hectares of land across the country, used to train armed forces. Although mainly used by the army, the training area has allowed an increasing amount of public use of both the climbing facilities and adventure training over the last few years.
  When the firing range is in use, signs, restriction gates and red flags are used to require walkers to divert inland around the back of the range before returning to the Coastal Path.
  A map of the Chickerell parish boundary is here
caption: Wyke Regis Bridging Camp
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