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The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, BH20 6JG
www.tankmuseum.org/home
The Bovington Tank Museum is the foremost collection of armoured vehicles in the United Kingdom. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the most wide-ranging collection of tanks and armoured vehicles in the world, and includes the second working example of a German Tiger I tank in the world and a British WW1 Mark V.
The collection is held at the Bovington Army camp in the county of Dorset in South West England, about 1 mile (2 km) north of the town of Wool and 12 miles (20 km) west of the major port of Poole – Grid reference SY829883. The camp trains all sections of the British Army in tracked vehicle driving as well as repairing and maintaining the vehicles in its workshops. The museum is situated within the camp.
The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, BH20 6JG
www.tankmuseum.org/home
The Bovington Tank Museum is the foremost collection of armoured vehicles in the United Kingdom. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the most wide-ranging collection of tanks and armoured vehicles in the world, and includes the second working example of a German Tiger I tank in the world and a British WW1 Mark V.
The collection is held at the Bovington Army camp in the county of Dorset in South West England, about 1 mile (2 km) north of the town of Wool and 12 miles (20 km) west of the major port of Poole – Grid reference SY829883. The camp trains all sections of the British Army in tracked vehicle driving as well as repairing and maintaining the vehicles in its workshops. The museum is situated within the camp.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovington_Tank_Museum
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Coordinates: 50°41'40"N 2°14'27"W
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