Last Alteration: Tuesday 13 November 2007
Eelmoor Road & Eelmoor Plain Road
Eelmoor Road & Eelmoor Plain Road
Claycart Bottom, Aldershot, Hampshire
Eelmoor Road and Eelmore Plain Road form part of the MOD's Test Circuit for army vehicles. Note that, as with much of the area around Aldershot, this is MOD land and so access is public but dependent upon whether in active army use of not!
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.
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Old Church Farm (road) (The Time Monster): 5.42 miles.
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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