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Defence Training Estate

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Defence Training Estates is the operating division of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation responsible for the management of the 78% of the defence estate allocated as Training Areas and Ranges. The organisation is responsible for provision of sufficient and suitable estate to support the training requirements of the British Armed Forces whilst assuring environmental management and appropriate historical and archaeological preservation.

The organisation is headquartered at the Land Warfare Centre, Warminster and has a number of regional headquarters responsible for the management of the training estate on a regional basis.

Training areas that the DTE is responsible for include

Salisbury Plain Training Area

The Salisbury Plain Training Area covers around half of Salisbury Plain and includes a number of facilities including:

Barton Stacey Training Area

Warcop Training Area

Stanford Training Area

Stanford Training Area, known as STANTA is a large operational training area in the vicinity of Norwich used by the Operational Training and Advisory Group for pre-deployment training.

Sennybridge Training Area

Sennybridge Training Area, known as SENTA, lies to the north of the Brecon Beacons.