Talk:Milton Range

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Error regarding police training centre and Milton Range.

If you care to check google maps, you can see the old ranges served by the railway halt a good distance from where the police training centre is. The police centre is more towards Denton than Milton.

Also it was revealed on historical google maps that the police centre was where London Mayor Boris Johnson hid his outlawed water cannon from prying eyes.

It also is lost that RAF Gravesend's eastern boundary intersected with Milton Range with the railway and road the only physical reminder of that boundary and a short section of the perimeter guard patrol road left near Valley Drive, there was a further longer patrol road that headed almost down to the Higham-Gravesend road next to what became Thong Lane park renamed to Cascades when the last vestiges of the airport were lost to new buildings. The slope from Cascades down towards the river became an excellent launching point for fighter craft scrambling in the defence of London albeit itself a satellite of RAF Biggin Hill commmand.

The army were still occasionally using Milton ranges in the 1970's as kids from the outlying Chalk and Riverview Park estates often wandered down to watch (myself included) and often earn't a few pennies gathering all the spent cartridges for the shooters, the ranges were considered superior to Shoreham ranges for long range rifle firing due to Shoreham's shorter course. Most of these ranges became obsolete with the new ETA ranges at Purbright and Purfleet whilst Lydd offered as did Purfleet excellent battle conditions firing which Milton and Shoreham lacked.

79.74.159.168 (talk) 02:36, 8 July 2020 (UTC)