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Salisbury Plain
(Redirected from SPTA)
Steak without the trimmings. Also a small part of Wiltshire to which the entire British Army decamps every summer to go on exercise, where it is known as Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA).
Split into a variety of training areas, and surrounded by a number of garrisons and camps such as Warminster, Larkhill, Tidworth and Bulford.
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Some more information on this fascinating tract of countryside is available here.
