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Conflicted landscape of war and peace
Photographs of Salisbury Plain reveal a vast area of incongruous contrasts, says JOHN GREEN
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PART of the chalk downlands stretching over eastern and southern England, the 300 square miles of Salisbury Plain are sparsely populated.
Famous for its rich archaeological sites, including Stonehenge, the heart of this ancient landscape is an eerie and ambiguous space.
Its present sparsely populated state is because large areas have been occupied by the military since 1897 for war-games training.
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