When the World's Armies Came to Salisbury Plain
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Theoe's No Sense That This Was Once a Thriving Minni Metropolis
There's no hint that this was once a thriving minni metropolis, whether architecturally or logistically. A lot of the huts were sold to the local farmers, partly as sheds for the farms, but also to be made into farm labourers houses. Two or three of those are still in the fields, some of them in better shape than others. And there's does other things as well, such as, a lot of sleepers from the railway were used to build the bridges over the little stream that runs through the village.
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