Guidance

Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) firing times: August 2025

Updated 8 August 2025

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August firing times

There is no firing planned for:

  • Areas 6, 7, 8 (Chitterne)
  • Salisbury Plain (East) (Tidworth)
DATE Larkhill / Westdown Bulford ranges Warminster ranges Imber Ranges 1, 2, 3, 4
1 August 2025 Nil Day Day Nil  
2 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
3 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
4 August 2025 Nil Nil Day Nil  
5 August 2025 Nil Nil Day Nil  
6 August 2025 Nil Nil Day Nil  
7 August 2025 Nil Nil Day and night Nil  
8 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
9 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
10 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
11 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
12 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
13 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
14 August 2025 Nil Nil Day Nil  
15 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
16 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
17 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
18 August 2025 Day Day Day Nil  
19 August 2025 Nil Day Day Nil  
20 August 2025 Nil Day Day Nil  
21 August 2025 Nil Day Day Nil  
22 August 2025 Nil Day Nil Nil  
23 August 2025 Nil Day Nil Nil  
24 August 2025 Nil Day Nil Nil  
25 August 2025 Nil Nil Nil Nil  
26 August 2025 Day/Night Day Day Nil  
27 August 2025 Day Day Day Nil  
28 August 2025 Day/Night Day Day Nil  
29 August 2025 Day Day Day Nil  
30 August 2025 Nil Nil Day Nil  
31 August 2025 Nil Nil Day Nil  

Firing timings

Normal firing times for SPTA (subject to operation requirement extensions).

Monday: 9am to 5pm (9am to 5pm from 1 Nov to 1 Mar)
Tuesday: 9am to 11.30pm (9am to 9pm from 1 Nov to 1 Mar)
Wednesday: 9am to 5pm (9am to 5pm from 1 Nov to 1 Mar)
Thursday: 9am to 11.30pm (9am to 9pm from 1 Nov to 1 Mar)
Friday: 9am to 5pm (9am to 5pm from 1 Nov to 1 Mar)
Saturday: 9am to 11.30pm (9am to 9pm from 1 Nov to 1 Mar)
Sunday: 9am to 1pm (9am to 1pm from 1 Nov to 1 Mar)

Your safety

You are reminded not to access the byeways when the red flags are flying and the ‘danger’, ‘live firing’ or ‘no public entry’ signs are displayed.

For your own safety do not touch any military debris, it may be dangerous.

Learn more about accessing MOD training areas safely.

Location

You can find information on the location of Salisbury ranges on our Public Access page and on Salisbury Plain military lands byelaws 1981.

You can also find a map and more information on the Imber Range perimeter path.

Danger area boundaries are posted on signs at each entrance to the training area.

Military lands byelaws

You are reminded when on land subject to the Salisbury Plain Military Lands byelaws 1981 (S.I.1981/1982) under Byelaw 5 it is an offence to fail to comply with the provisions of byelaw 3:

  • under section 3(1(d)) no person may engage in or carry on any trade or business of any kind whatsoever. To do so may result in a Warning Off, whereby you will be asked to leave the training area or a fine being issued

  • it is an offence to use a motor vehicle other than on a byeway open to all traffic (BOAT) or permissive BOAT

Under section 3(1(c)) no person may ride a horse, bicycle or tricycle or ride, drive or propel a motor vehicle of any kind, otherwise than on the carriageway or a road suitably constructed and made up for general use by vehicular traffic. To do so may result in a warning off, whereby you will be asked to leave the training area and a s59 (of the Police Reform Act 2002) warning letter issued or a fine being issued.

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