Guidance

Straight Point Ranges and Woodbury Common Grenade Range firing times July 2025

Updated 20 June 2025

Please be aware that short notice changes may be made to the dates shown.

Straight Point Ranges

Date SPRC firing
1 July Day firing
2 July Day firing
3 July Day and night firing
4 July Day firing
5 July No firing
6 July No firing
7 July Day firing
8 July Day firing
9 July Day and night firing
10 July Day and night firing
11 July No firing
12 July No firing
13 July No firing
14 July Day firing
15 July Day firing
16 July Day firing
17 July Day and night firing
18 July Day firing
19 July Day firing
20 July No firing
21 July Day firing
22 July Day firing
23 July Day and night firing
24 July Day firing
25 July No firing
26 July No firing
27 July No firing
28 July Day firing
29 July Day firing
30 July Day firing
31 July Day firing

Summer firing timings

Weekdays: 9am to 4pm (may be extended)
Evenings: from 30 mins before dusk until 11.45pm
Weekends: 9am to 12.30pm

Winter firing timings

Weekdays: 9am to 4pm (may be extended)
Evenings: from 30 mins before dusk until 9.30pm
Weekends: 9am to 4pm

Woodbury Common Grenade Range

There is live grenade firing on 3 and 17 July 2025.

Firing (throwing) timings

Weekdays: 10am to 3pm (timings may be extended by exception to meet key training objectives)

Weekends: No live throwing at weekends (weekend live throwing may take place by exception to meet key training objectives)

Your safety

Follow all Ministry of Defence warning signs:

If the red flags and/or lights are hoisted, regardless of the timings or published dates, do not enter the Range Danger area as there is a danger to life.

Red flags (daylight hours) and red lights (evening hours) indicate that live firing is taking place within the ranges’ danger areas (sea or land).

For your own safety do not touch any military debris, it may be dangerous.

Learn more about accessing MOD training areas safely.

Contact us

For updated information on firing taking place phone:

MOD Training Safety Officers/Site Range Control: 07810 773175, 07773 953660 or 01395 272972.
Duty Officer: 07870 377807 (out of hours and weekends).

Location

Straight Point Range Complex (SPRC) is 10 miles south of Exeter between Sandy Bay and Otter Cove. Access routes to SPRC are through the Devon Cliffs Holiday park at Sandy Bay, EX8 5BT.

The firing range covers the peninsula area south of the South West Coast Path.

Map of the Straight Point peninsula showing the danger area covers the whole peninsula and spreads out to sea (approximately 3 kilometres east from the peninsula, and a further 500 metres south approximately).

Straight Point Range Complex: land and sea danger area boundaries. Crown copyright.