Warminster
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- This article is about the English town. See also Warminster, Pennsylvania
The town was first settled in the Saxon period, though there are the remains of numerous earlier settlements nearby, including the Iron Age hill fort Battlebury Camp and Cley Hill, the latter a site operated by the National Trust.
The town's prosperity following the growth of the wool trade in the Late Middle Ages caused the erection of many magnificent structures, including the Minster Church of Saint Denys, in a yew grove sacred from pre-Christian times, and including an organ originally destined for the then under-construction Salisbury Cathedral.
In the 1960s and early 1970s Cradle Hill became famous as the centre of a flap surrounding UFOs and crop circles with at least one author claiming that as many as 5000 UFOs had been witnessed in the area.
It is perhaps related that Warminster is the home of the Warminster Training Centre — formerly the Army's School of Infantry — and abuts Salisbury Plain, which is dotted with Royal Artillery training ranges.
Further reading on the UFO phenomena
Supportive
Skeptical
External links
- [Warminster Forum]
- [Warminster]
- [Alby's Warminster]
- [Warminster Computer Consultants]
- [Warminster Online Directory]
- [Warminster Highbury Youth Football Club]
- [An Admission of Faked Photographs]
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