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Mentally I told myself that I had come all the way from Bristol via Filton, Plymouth, Westward Ho and Tidworth with the same idea but I had been in the army long enough to know that it was impossible to win an argument with a higher rank so I put on my wooden soldier's expression and stared straight ahead.
A. C. Smith, in his "Birds of Wiltshire," names twenty-three breeding-places, no fewer than nine of them on Salisbury Plain; but at the date of the publication of his work, 1887, only three of all these nesting-places were still in use: South Tidworth, Wilton Park, and Compton Park, Compton Chamberlain.
The valley goes on to Cholderton, Shipton Bellinger and Tidworth, where are situated the head-quarters of the Southern Military Command. The Collingbournes Ducis and Kingston are much farther on, right at the head of the valley, and eighteen miles from Salisbury.
However before my course really got started I was ordered to get moving once more, this time to Tidworth to take a trade test. I had only ever heard of the place before as being the site of the Tidworth Tattoo and I wasn't quite prepared for the fact that it appeared to be in the middle of nowhere and that the railway tracks finished there; my spirits sank.
If the explorer has penetrated as far as Tidworth a train can be taken three miles across the Down to Ludgershall, a very ancient place near the Hampshire border. It would seem to have been of some importance in earlier days. "The castell stoode in a parke now clene doun. To this castle came the Empress Maud and not far away the seal of her champion, Milo of Hereford, was found some years since.
Sanderson, which lie before me, than venture the loss of my originals by post or carrier, which, though not often, yet sometimes fail. You have a performance of my promise, and an obedience to your desires from "Your affectionate "Humble Servant, "North Tidworth, "March 5, 1677-8."
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