Last weekend I visited the German village with my son as assistant camera man. The nearby village of Tilshead is virtually under water with the floods but the German village sits high and dry on the desolate skyline. Salisbury Plain continues to be developed, as the demands for changing military training environments arise with each new conflict. Copehill Down is the site of the German village on Salisbury Plain although In recent years the facility has been expanded to include a Shanty Town made up of cargo containers stacked and laid out in rows of tightly packed streets, to provide an additional training that more closely resembles the Army's current operational theatres. - Susan Francis
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