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Location Category ID:
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3500
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Added to Database:
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30 October 2011
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Last Edited:
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12 November 2011
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Address: |
Southfields Farm, Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, LE17 6NW
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Telephone: |
01858-880239
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Email: |
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Opening Times: |
By appointment.
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Official Website: |
Armourgeddon
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Other Links: |
Danny Boy Blog
YouTube – Tank Paintball 1
YouTube – Tank Paintball 2
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Latitude, Longitude: |
52.47002427
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-1.06118917
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Location Accuracy: |
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Armourgeddon, based in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, is one of the UK’s premier outdoor activity centres. It offers tank driving sessions, amphibious vehicle driving, as well as conventional paintball, air rifle shooting, archery and quad biking. Armourgeddon’s unique feature is ‘tank paintball’, using FV432 armoured personnel carriers fitted with 40mm paintball guns. Participants initially learn to drive the vehicles, both with the driver’s hatch open and then using a periscope. Then they learn to load, aim and fire the gun on a small firing range. Finally two teams go into battle against each other, driving their vehicles closed down and firing at each other to score the most hits. Two of the vehicles used for this are original FV432/30 fire support vehicles; Armourgeddon also has another dozen or so extemporised vehicles made by combining standard FV432s with turrets from CVR(W) Fox armoured cars.
In recent years Armourgeddon has been building up a small collection of tanks and other historic armoured and military vehicles. These are displayed in a dedicated hangar, and around the paintballing areas. Vehicles include M3 and M16 half-tracks, M8 armoured car, Humber Pig armoured personnel carrier, Ferret armoured car, BRDM2 armoured personnel carrier, BV206 all-terrain vehicle, GMC533 and Bedford trucks, and a Willys MB jeep.
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October 2011
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1: Armourgeddon driving and paintball area
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 574
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 163
Has Priority: 0
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2: Driving and paintball area
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 575
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 151
Has Priority: 0
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3: Artillery display
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 576
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 160
Has Priority: 0
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4: Military equipment collection
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 577
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 159
Has Priority: 0
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5: Military equipment collection
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 578
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 96
Has Priority: 0
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6: Vehicle collection hangar
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 579
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 158
Has Priority: 0
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7: Historical vehicle collection
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 580
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 147
Has Priority: 0
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8: Historical vehicle collection
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 581
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 113
Has Priority: 0
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9: M3 half-track
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 582
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 199
Has Priority: 0
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10: M16 half-track
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 583
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 98
Has Priority: 0
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11: M8 armoured car
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 584
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 242
Has Priority: 0
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12: Reception building
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 585
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 151
Has Priority: 0
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13: Humber Pig armoured personnel carrier
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 586
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 497
Has Priority: 0
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14: Ferret armoured car
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 587
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 439
Has Priority: 0
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15: Extemporised FV432/30 "17EA83" / "Sandy"
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 588
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 210
Has Priority: 0
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16: Extemporised FV432/30 "16B" / "Sam"
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 589
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 171
Has Priority: 0
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17: Extemporised FV432/30 "07A" / "Jessica"
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 590
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 323
Has Priority: 0
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18: Extemporised FV432/30 "02A" / "Aimee"
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 591
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 290
Has Priority: 0
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19: Extemporised FV432/30 "25C" / "Meg"
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 592
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 327
Has Priority: 0
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20: Extemporised FV432/30 "15A" / "ROSIE"
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 593
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 739
Has Priority: 0
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21: Extemporised FV432/30s “04A” / “Vivian” and “19A” / “Jeanie”
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 594
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 161
Has Priority: 0
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22: Extemporised FV432/30s “06A” / “Katie” and “03C” / “Sally”
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 595
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 162
Has Priority: 0
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23: Extemporised FV432/30s “08C” and “09A”
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 596
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 179
Has Priority: 0
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24: Armourgeddon FV432 vehicles in preparation for a 'ta...
Taken: 23 October 2011
Contributor: T. Larkum
Location Photo ID: 597
Added: 2 November 2011
Views: 136
Has Priority: 0
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