Last Alteration: Sunday 07 April 2013
Eelmoor Training Circuit
GPS Coordinates
51°15'42", -00°47'14" show decimal
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Page 9, N3
Eelmoor Training Circuit
Claycart Bottom, Aldershot, Hampshire
The Eelmoor Training Circuit is used by the MOD for the testing of army vehicles. As with much of the area around Aldershot the land is accessible by the public when the MOD are not using it themselves.
22 Jul 2011: Several organisations make use of the circuit when it is free, which includes DriveAt15 that provides driving lessons to those under the age of 17, and the Camberley Skaters. The site is also often used as an overflow car park for the Farnborough Air Show.
How to get here:
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Road: M3 - Exit junction 4 and then take the A331 towards Aldershot until the junction with North Camp; then join the A325 and head south-west until the junction with the A323, towards Fleet. Parking: there is a car park by the MOD Test Unit. +
Access: MODStatus: uncertainEelmoor Road
Photograph taken: 11th June 2006 by Chuck Foster
The Ambassadors of Death (2)
Filmed: 30 Jan 1970
The Doctor takes back Recovery 7.
Access: MODStatus: uncertainEelmoor Plain Road
Photograph taken: 11th June 2006 by Chuck Foster
The Ambassadors of Death (2)
Filmed: 30 Jan 1970
The Doctor takes back Recovery 7.
Where to walk to next?
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Fleet Road (The Ambassadors of Death). Turning right out of the car park by the MOD Test Unit, the part of Fleet Road filmed in the story is probably along this stretch up to Rushmoor Road.
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Claycart Bottom (The Ambassadors of Death). Continue walking to the end of Eelmoor Road, Claycart Bottom is the plain spread out before you.
Additional locations as the crow flies:
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Claycart Bridge (The Ambassadors of Death): 0.46 miles. 
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Beacon Hill (The Ambassadors of Death): 2.20 miles.
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Beacon Hill Road (The Ambassadors of Death): 2.20 miles.
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Sheephatch Farm (The Silurians): 4.92 miles.
Notable photos/media relating to the location:
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YouTube - DriveAt15 - A video of a drive-around of the circuit
General Details:
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The roads used to lead directly into Fleet Road, but are now enclosed within the MOD land. The area has changed quite a bit since the 1970s and it isn't certain exactly where all filming might have taken place for the sequence when the Doctor takes Recovery 7.
Related Stories
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The Ambassadors of Death [30 Jan 1970]
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