An army camp was established in 1914 to the north of the village, on the other side of the main road near the junction with the Chitterne road. The site is now part of the Salisbury Plain Training Area and continues in use as Knook Camp, providing temporary accommodation in many small buildings and extending north into Heytesbury parish.

2021年2月3日 · THE Ministry of Defence wants to upgrade accommodation at the Knook army camp next to the A36 south of Warminster. The MoD's Defence Infrastructure Organisations …

Knook Camp is a British Army military base located in Knook, Wiltshire, England. The camp was established during World War II as a training ground for British soldiers preparing for the invasion of Europe in 1944, and it became part of the Salisbury Plain military training area …

Knook Camp is situated within the Salisbury Plain Training Area in Wiltshire. The camp is set in a rural situation on Salisbury Plain with various buildings including wooden buildings dating from the second world war and red brick buildings.

2022年5月18日 · Landmarc and the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) have opened a new footbridge between the North and South areas of Knook Camp on Salisbury Plain to create a safe pedestrian route across the B390 main arterial road, which connects Shrewton to the A36.

2004年12月3日 · Knook is horrendous. Spent some time there before going off to the sandpit last year. Typical army training, shooting in a snowstorm prior to going to the desert. No mobile phone coverage except by standing in the middle of the road and standing on tiptoe. And a nice bracing walk from the accomodation blocks to the ablutions of a morning.

Location: N of the A36 and straddling the B390, between Knook and Heytesbury, roughly 4.5nm SE of Warminster town centre. Period of operation: 1944/5 only? (For the USAAF) Helicopters: ? NOTES: One Piper L-4 Grasshopper and nine Stinson L-5 Sentinels were based here in WW2. We'd love to hear from you, so please scroll down to leave a comment!

Knook Camp is a transit training camp used throughout the year by the Regular Army, TA and Cadet Forces. The camp accomodation consists of wooded structure huts, with lecture rooms, offices and a large central cookhouse.

Knook is a village in Wiltshire, West Country, England. Knook is situated nearby to the hamlet Upton Folly, as well as near the village Upton Lovell. Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury is the Church of England parish church for the parish of Heytesbury with Tytherington and Knook, Wiltshire, England.

Knook is a small village in Wiltshire, England located 4.5 miles southeast of Warminster. It was home to an Iron Age hillfort, and it was known to the Anglo-Saxons as Cunuche. Much of the present manor house was built in 1637, and it also became home to the British Army 's Knook Camp during World War II.