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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 .
A colony of up to 60,000 King penguins on Salisbury Plain (Aptenodytes patagonicus). Salisbury Plain ( Spanish : Llanura de Salisbury ) ( 54°3′S 37°21′W / 54.050°S 37.350°W / -54.050; -37.350 ) is a broad coastal plain found with the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia
Rough map of military training area (green) on Salisbury Plain within Wiltshire (blue); it accounts for about half the area of Salisbury Plain. The British Army's Salisbury Plain Training Area covers roughly half of the plain (and makes up about 11% of Wiltshire). The army first conducted exercises on the plain in 1898.
Westbury White Horse or Bratton White Horse is a hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 mi (2.4 km) east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England. Located on the edge of Bratton Downs and lying just below an Iron Age hill fort, it is the oldest of several white horses carved in Wiltshire. [1]
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.
Updated maps from Williamson County show an increase of 6,000 structures in the 100-year flood plains. The last information available was from 1994. New maps show increase of more than 6,000 ...
Salisbury is the northernmost town in Massachusetts, with its northwestern corner (where Elmwood Street meets the New Hampshire border) being at approximately 42°53'12.26". Lying along the northern banks of the Merrimack River at its mouth, the town is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Merrimack River and Newburyport to the south ...
Sling Camp was a World War I camp occupied by New Zealand soldiers beside the then-military town of Bulford on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. History