Located in Wiltshire and parts of Bedfordshire and Hampshire, the wide expanse of Salisbury Plain has hosted activities of the British Army for more than a century, since 1898 in fact, when the first military exercises were conducted in the area. The army occupies half of the plain’s 300 square miles, using it as a training facility for tank and artillery units and others. Additionally, living quarters for military personnel are arranged in existing barracks and army camps dotted across the area. These will soon be joined by a trio of new residential schemes – Larkhill, Bulford and Ludgershall, being built to house soldiers and their families, many of whom are being brought back from bases across Germany as part of the Ministry of Defence’s re-basing programme.

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