Castlemartin Camp
This site can trace its origins back to the late 1930s when plans were being made to expand the British Army and it became a Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) camp and tank range.
At the end of the Second World War the range was returned to agriculture, but as the Cold War started to escalate in 1948 the land was requisitioned and has remained in military hands ever since. A public car park is situated immediately outside the main gate of the camp to permit access to view the two ‘Gate Guardian’ tanks - a Centurion Mk 12 main battle tank and a heavy-gun Conqueror tank, both dating from the Cold War. Inside the gates, not open to the public, are two further tanks, a Churchill Crocodile flame-throwing tank used by the 79th Armoured Division and a 1980s German Leopard Mk 2 tank.
