Ref the bug in / bug out condundrum

[NorthernRaider]

Part of the trouble around huge chunks of North Yorks and South Durham is 100 years ago and 70 years ago almost every village around here had an army camp in this area, The DLI alone had 55 Battalions in WW1 all with camps, training areas etc. On top of that millions of TA reservists and Cadets along with Home Guard Units have also been using the area and most of them would have been using / hiding caches and ammo dumps often improvised and sometimes forgotten.

Move to 2014 and not only are the villages growing with new estates going up everywhere, but also the Army is more than doubling the size of bases and depots in the Garrison, so loads of dozers are digging up huge swathes of land and disturbing long forgotten munitions.

Also along the NER and LNER / ECML during WW1 we had huge improvised munitions plants built right next to the railways to provide ammo for the front line, a lot of that was often stored outside and occasionally forgotten.

But just one loud bang left much of the NE gridlocked in North Yorks for over 14 hours, highlighting again the issue with trying to bug out.