Why no airsoft sites in East Yorkshire

[Mike1971]

As the title says, There have been rumors, even speculation and voiced confessions of people opening an air soft site in East yorkshire.

But(and this is a Jenifer Lopez size butt) nobody has managed to make this happen yet, can anyone tell me why?

Its even been posted on here that there will be one opening!

 

[Chippins]

No idea mate, it's the same in Leeds.

 

[Hudson]

Hey fella; whereabouts in E. Yorks are you?
I've just moved from Sunny(??) Brid to Monkey-loving Hartlepool a couple of months ago. Used to game regularly at Centurion which was a thirty minute drive over the border at Scarborough, and you've also got Airsoft Commandos just outside near Selby.

 

[Hudson]

But anyway, to answer the question; it's probably because besides the relatively low population (and thus concentration of airsofters) there's hardly sod-all decent land suitable for skirmishing in East Yorks on a viable scale; the few places that might be okay generally aren't interested in allowing skirmishing on their land.

Unlike the other three Yorkshire counties, there's not too much decent-sized woodland around; most of the place is either open farmland or beaches & cliffs, and the only decent sized-towns are Hull and York; so the choice for Urban sites is reduced straight away. :/

Once you get into West or South Yorkshire; there's plenty of sites available; around a dozen within the Leeds/Sheffield area alone but the absolutely shambles of East Yorks roads means you'd be looking at unecessarily long travel times for anyone travelling from outside the area...

 

[Monty]

Same in chester, closest one here is about 20 minutes away.

 

[Hudson]

Hell; 20 minutes is reet good!
Before Centurion opened, it was around 2 hours to get to a site.

 

[Mike1971]

HI Hudson, I'm in Beverley.

The nearest sites to me are Arena in Grimsby or LAC, lincolnshire.

Then centurion north of me.

 

[sp00n]

<<<< waiting for the hull site (its gunna be called slaughter house skirmish iirc) to open , also for the barton site to open, and i may give the new site in grimsby ago (an optac site on a ship iirc, but i may be wrong)

i am a member of arena (kinda gone off it abit as its too easy to get spawn camped :angry: , and getting shot in my goggles from almost point blank is not fun! )

i have been to LAC alot (at both there current sites, and i am told they are going to have annother site open soon).

i have not been to centurion yet, ... its abit of a drive from Hull :lol:

on a side note, the hull site is not the first to try and open, there was one that was going to be called "green man down" but as far as i can tell, thats not going to happen now.

 

[Hudson]

Yeah, there's a couple supposedly opening up not too far away (Assuming they manage to get past all the hurdles that is), so fingers crossed for you!


Hull and Humber Airsoft

 

[Chopkins92]

Slaughter House Skirmish is open in Hull and is on Facebook for information

 

[APC]

Humber Airsoft is now open just next to the Humber Bridge (South Bank) in the disused 35 acre
Leggotts Quarry in South Ferriby.

www.humberairsoft.co.uk or check out the Facebook page: Humber Airsoft.

 

[Fumps]

Yeh I'm new to the sport & am really confused at the lack of sites dotted around Leeds area.

I'm originally from Pontefract & know that there are loads of land out that way that are unused & would be perfect for Airsoft. If I knew what I was doing I'd definitely look into setting something up in that area. It's right next to the old A1 & M62 so it would be great for getting there.

 

[Hudson]

But...There's about a dozen or so around Leeds?

http://www.airsoftmap.net/Skirmish/