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Copehill Down is a Ministry of Defence training facility near Chitterne on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. It is a 'FIBUA' (Fighting In Built Up Areas) urban warfare and close quarters battle training centre, where exercises and tests are conducted. "Wiltshire – In Pictures" BBC News, October 2007. Retrieved 18 November 2010 The site lies in open ground in the northeast of Chitterne parish, between Chitterne and Tilshead, at Ordnance Survey .
The facility includes a shanty town stacked and laid out in rows of tightly packed streets, to provide an additional training area that more closely resembles the Army's operational theatres in Afghanistan and Operation Telic. There is also some rolling stock.
The Copehill Down training area is open for public access. Non-combat access to the FIBUA village is restricted, but has been used for airsoft wargaming and by historical reenactment societies, which take part in private reenactments of battles.
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