Salisbury Plain

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Salisbury Plain

n
(Placename) an open chalk plateau in S England, in Wiltshire: site of Stonehenge; military training area. Average height: 120 m (400 ft)
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Salis′bury Plain′


n.
a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
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If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth --off lone Fanning's Island, or the far away King's Mills; how much more natural, I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and sociable contact.
Though vexation hath not the same effect on all persons as it usually hath on a widow, whose appetite it often renders sharper than it can be rendered by the air on Bansted Downs, or Salisbury Plain; yet the sublimest grief, notwithstanding what some people may say to the contrary, will eat at last.
The valley of the Avon--invisible, but far to the north the trained eye may see Clearbury Ring that guards it, and the imagination may leap beyond that on to Salisbury Plain itself, and beyond the Plain to all the glorious downs of Central England.
The detachment then left Moray shortly after 4pm to make the journey to the Army's training area at Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, where troops have been put through their paces since the 19th Century.
Troops have begun testing over 70 examples of futuristic technology including enhanced surveillance drones and unmanned vehicles on the fields of Salisbury Plain in southern England, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announced.
1916: A military funeral was held at Lindley Zion United Methodist Church for Pte Willie Bray, of 14 Lidget Street in Lindley, who died from thrombosis in a hospital on Salisbury Plain.
En route to France, the Battalion camped at Salisbury Plain, before going to France in January 1916.
While at Salisbury Plain, a memento came into the possession of our family with his details written, presumably in his hand, inside.
It allows users the sensation of being part of a live-firing exercise on Salisbury Plain, and gives a sense of what it is like to be a loader/operator on a Challenger 2 tank.
They were among 11 people taken to hospital after the off-road crash on Salisbury Plain, near Westdown Camp, Wilts.
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