Skip to main content

Salisbury Plain (Trees)

Volume 487: debated on Monday 7 May 1951

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

asked the Secretary of State for War what acreage of trees has been planted in the Salisbury Plain area; what acreage of this total is for amenity purposes for camps; and what acreage is to afford cover for training.

During the last forty years about 650 acres of trees have been planted on Salisbury Plain, roughly 400 acres for amenity and 250 acres to improve training. A number of trees had to be cut down when the aerodromes at Netheravon and Upavon were laid out and others, in areas used for training, were destroyed by firing. Of the 650 acres, some 500 acres remain planted with trees.