Wyke Regis Training Area

The Bridging Camp's inner training area allows Sappers to hone their skills on everything from raft building to familiarisation with modern weaponry.

The site features an 8-lane small-arms rifle range, and is used for basic fieldcraft and patrolling exercises, along with marksmanship training.

[5] The range is typically used for 150 days per year and once held active sentries that were posted during live use to police the footpaths and offshore.

In 1938 the site was used by the Militia, and it continued as a training area during the Second World War, which included a period of use by the RAF as a base for some of their 'Dambusters' trials for the Bouncing bomb.

[8] In 1983, to mark the 55-year association, the Freedom of the Borough of Weymouth and Portland was granted to the Corps of Royal Engineers.

The event was marked with a parade and, ten years later, in September 1993, 22 Engineer Regiment again exercised their right to march through the town with 'bayonets fixed and drums beating' to celebrate this singular honour.