DTE North West: About our ranges
DTE North (West) consists of a major training area at Warcop, and two training camps:
Warcop training area
This is situated in Cumbria, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and covers some 9,715 hectares. The area has many rare species of flora and fauna. There are numerous archaeological remains and some of the UK's finest untouched limestone pavements. There are also several Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
Warcop participates in the Black Grouse Recovery Project. This also benefits other threatened species, such as the grey partridge, skylark, song thrush, linnet, reed bunting and spotted flycatcher. Other projects include providing bat roosts; protecting red squirrels; improving the wetlands (home of the great crested newt); and re-establishing old hedgerows and dry stone walls.
Halton
This small, 19 hectare site includes eight hectares of ancient semi-natural woodland.
Holcombe
The area consists of 303 hectares of freehold land on open moorland, along with grass farmland with young plantations, as well as several woodlands of varying ages. There are three sites of biological interest in the training area, which is an integral part of the West Pennine Moors. At least one farmstead and a field system date from the 17th century.