Sennybridge
Oh Jesus the Horror!
Sennybridge is somewhere in Wales. Where exactly it is I can't tell you as like B A Baracus in The A Team I have a fear of the place so deep that I have to be rendered insensible to get me there. OK this isn't quite true - I'm asleep on the transport.
This being the case it may not be in Wales - and frankly from my point of view it could be anywhere. This having been said, the fact that most of it is at 45 degrees to everything else, is freezing cold, pissed wet through and desolate leads me to assume that it is in fact in Wales.
Sennybridge has the advantage of instantly creating exercise realism to aid the Character building nature of any exercise. This of course is achieved by giving every man jack the arrse by getting them wet, cold, knackered and pissed off almost immediately. If you peruse the "worst exercise in the world ever" thread you will see that all the very worst are sited in Sennybridge - this is no co-incidence.
Sennybridge incorporates ample sleeping facilities in the form of unreasonably dense forestry blocks - night time infiltration of which is aided by plenty of gullies, shell-scrapes and conveniently sharp branches carefully cultivated by MOD foresters at eye-level. Excavation of suitable platoon harbour facilities is aided by the unfathomably dense network of unnaturally robust roots that exist in the meagre square footage between trees - the primary purpose of which is appears to be to require soldiers to hack away at the ground for significantly longer than would be otherwise necessary. Once you've finally constructed your scratcher you discover that it's simply not big enough for you and your kit, unless your sleep at an uncomfortably bent angle - yet a disturbingly massive root blocks further extension, which you resolve can only be removed with explosives.
Sennybridge is large enough to host multiple exercises simultaneously, which renders possible the amusing circumstance of unplanned contacts between units that have absolutely nothing to do with each other (see Royal Military Academy Sandhurst).
See also SENTA
