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Copehill Down is a Ministry of Defence training facility near Chitterne on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. It is a ' FIBUA ' (Fighting In Built Up Areas) urban warfare and close quarters battle training centre, where exercises and tests are conducted. [ 1 ]
Copehill Down is an urban warfare training site. Several installations have been built and since removed, including the Stonehenge Aerodrome and Amesbury and Military Camp Light Railway. A grass aerodrome at Netheravon was used by the RAF until 1963, then by the Army Air Corps until 2012, and is now a tri-service installation. [5]
Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain. Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in southern England covering 300 square miles (780 km 2). [1] It is part of a system of chalk downlands throughout eastern and southern England formed by the rocks of the Chalk Group and largely lies within the county of Wiltshire, but stretches into Hampshire.
Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines, Site of Special Scientific Interest in Bath, Somerset, England; Compton Down, hill on the Isle of Wight just to the east of Freshwater Bay; Copehill Down, UK Ministry of Defence training facility on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England; County Down, county in Northern Ireland
Imber is an uninhabited village and former civil parish within the British Army's training area, now in the parish of Heytesbury, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England.It lies in an isolated area of the Plain, about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) west of the A360 road between Tilshead and West Lavington.
Large parts of Chitterne parish are Ministry of Defence land within the Salisbury Plain Training Area; the Imber firing range is to the north and the Copehill Down training area to the east. The latter has an uninhabited "German Village" used by the British Army for training in street warfare ( FIBUA - Fighting in Built-up Areas).
Salisbury Plain has much evidence of prehistoric activity. One kilometre south of Tilshead village, under the ridge of Copehill Down, is the White Barrow, [3] a large Neolithic long barrow. To the southwest [4] and southeast are ancient boundary ditches, partly followed by the parish boundary; [5] the ditch in the southeast has a long barrow ...
White Barrow is a large Neolithic long barrow just below the crest of Copehill Down on Salisbury Plain, just south of the village of Tilshead in Wiltshire, England. It is a scheduled monument , and the first ancient monument to be purchased by the National Trust .