In 1986 the Ministry of Defence proposed, and built, a FIBUA (Fighting in built-up areas) training village on Copehill Down, a mile outside Chitterne, Salisbury Plain despite vigorous protests from the villagers.

Copehill Down is a 'FIBUA' (Fighting In Built Up Areas) training centre where Army exercises and tests are conducted in the form of town assaults and building clearing drills and general Urban Warfare.

The village is featured in most of the promotional army DVD's and television advertisements.

It has provided a training ground for conflicts including the Cold War, the Balkans and Northern Ireland.

Previous Games

• Town Assault 2 - May 2006
• Town Assault 4 - April 2007
• Phoenix Rising 4 - June 2009

Overhead view

Directions

Facilities

• Drinking Water
• Power (in designated buildings)
• Toilets
• Burger van
• Carpark

Sleeping Areas

• Car
• Tent
• An in-game building where upon you could be subject to attack during the night

Note:  In game building will sometimes be allocated as safe sleeping areas but these vary from event to event.

Purpose built military training village for 'Fighting In Built Up Areas' training (FIBUA).

Building commenced in 1988, and completed in September 1990.

Plans based on a typical small German village that might be found in 1 British Corps sector of West Germany.

Previous Games

• Phoenix Rising 1 - April 2008
• Phoenix Rising 2 - November 2008
• Phoenix Rising 3 - April 2009

Overhead view

Directions

Street View Directions

Facilities

• Drinking Water
• Power (in building 11A)
• Toilets
• Burger van
• Carpark

Sleeping Areas

• Car
• Tent
• Building 11A (the barn in the main square)
• An in-game building where upon you could be subject to attack during the night

Note:  In game building will sometimes be allocated as safe sleeping areas but these vary from event to event.

Swynnerton Training Area was an ordnance factory producing, packing and storing munitions, originally during the Second World War. Located in Staffordshire, six miles south of Newcastle-under-Lyme and just west of the M6, between junctions 14 and 15, today it consists of a Camp and Training Area covering 563 acres (228 hectares) of MoD freehold land. It is ring-fenced to MoD standards, has no public access and has no bylaws affecting it. The area contains numerous old buildings and bunkers, an excellent road and track network (all of which is ‘drive-on-the-right’), open and wooded countryside, and a lagoon fed by the River Meece with associated marshland.

The Training Area can sustain up to 800 troops, from different units, training simultaneously, over short to medium periods.

Previous Games

• Operation Zulu - November 2009

Overhead view

Directions

Facilities

• Drinking Water
• Power (on the Friday night)
• Toilets
• Burger van
• Carpark

Sleeping Areas

• Car
• Tent
• Basha

Note:  A building will be available for sleeping on the Friday night before the game starts.