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Wembury's Guns
For half a century the cliffs at Wembury Point thundered with the sound of naval artillery. What began as an anti-aircraft site during the war became the Royal Navy’s gunnery school, where young crews learned to fire live rounds out to sea. The Great Mewstone stood in the firing line, and the villages along the Yealm often felt the shockwaves rattle their windows. It was a place of skill and danger; accidents took lives as well as shaping them. When HMS Cambridge closed in 2001, the land was returned to nature, but traces of gun mounts still mark the turf. Wembury’s Guns remembers that chapter, the men, the echoes, and the silence that followed.
[Intro ]
Breaker roll and engines hum
Cambridge guns beat like a drum
Stone and iron sea and flame
All who served remember the name
[Verse 2]
Concrete veins and rusted bone
Orders cut through Devon rain
Load and fire then check again
The range still rings across the plain
[Chorus]
Wembury’s guns are roaring still
Through every tide and every hill
The sea still beats that iron sound
And shakes the rocks of Cambridge ground
[Bridge]
Fire control with cold precision
Range marks lost to sea derision
Foxglove grows where sparks once ran
The range remembers every man
[Chorus 2]
Wembury’s guns still call the bay
Their echoes rise then fade away
You can hear them when the storm draws near
The old range calling clear
[Outro]
Mark the range
Cease fire
The hillside keeps the score