Yeah, Orford Ness was a bombing range through both the wars and then a OTH radar and Nuclear weapon casing stress testing facility after them.
And if that wasn't enough, the entire area on the south side of the river here was closed by the army and the villagers moved out during WWII and it was taken over as a testing range, where mock-ups of the Atlantic wall were built and Hobarts Funnys given the job of trying to break it. Enemy fire was provided by a cruiser sitting off the coast, although it did fire in the wrong direction once and shelled the town I live in which was still populated by civilians (and quite a few soldiers, and a couple of coastal guns). Fortunately no-one was killed but a house was demolished.
So yeah, there's still a lot of stuff lying around here, but thankfully most of it has been cleared away over the years.
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