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Larkhill (grid reference SU125445) is a village in Wiltshire, England, on the edge of Salisbury Plain. It is part of the civil parish of Durrington in the district of Salisbury, and is a short distance west of Durrington village proper. It is about ten miles north of Salisbury.

The village has a long association with the British Army, and is the site of Larkhill Camp, currently the site of the Royal School of Artillery.

Fictional appearances

The comic book V for Vendetta (and its movie adaptation) featured a fictional concentration camp at Larkhill. Alan Moore stated in the notes to V for Vendetta (ISBN 1-84576-182-0), that he chose Larkhill because of the obvious military connections, but also because of a particularly unpleasant hiking trip that he had around the area.

The BBC television crime drama series Waking the Dead also featured a mental hospital called Larkhill in the latest season.

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Coordinates:
The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude.

The Ordnance Survey (OS) devised the national grid reference system, and it is heavily used in their survey data,
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    Not to be confused with Wilshire.


    Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large English county in the South West England region of the UK.
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    Motto
    Dieu et mon droit   (French)
    "God and my right"
    Anthem
    No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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    Salisbury Plain is a 300 sq mi (780 km²)[1] chalk plateau in central southern England, part of the Southern England Chalk Formation. Most of the plain lies within Wiltshire, with some in Berkshire.
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    civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. Civil parishes in their modern form were created in 1894, and although their origins are in the system of ecclesiastical
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    Durrington

    Durrington, Wiltshire (United Kingdom)

    Durrington shown within the United Kingdom
    Population 7,182
    OS grid reference
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    Salisbury is a local government district in Wiltshire, England. It was formed in 1974. Its main town is the city of Salisbury.

    There is no authority called Salisbury City Council.
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    Salisbury

    Salisbury, United Kingdom (United Kingdom)

    Salisbury shown within the United Kingdom
    Population 45,000 (2006)
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    The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with unification of the governments and armed forces of England and Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.
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    The Royal School of Artillery is the principal training establishment for artillery warfare in the British Army. It is located at Larkhill Garrison, on the south edge of Salisbury Plain in the UK.
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    V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s.
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    Comic Book:
    Alan Moore
    (uncredited)
    David Lloyd
    Screenplay:
    Wachowski Brothers
    Starring Natalie Portman
    Hugo Weaving
    Stephen Rea
    Stephen Fry
    John Hurt
    Music by Original:
    Dario Marianelli
    Non-Original:
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    Internment is the imprisonment or confinement[1] of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary (1989) gives the meaning as "The action of ‘interning’; confinement within the limits of a country or place".
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    Alan Moore

    Moore at a signing in London, October 2006
    Pseudonym: Curt Vile
    Born: November 18 1953 (1953--) (age 55)
    Northampton, England
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    The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

    Type Broadcast radio and television
    Country  United Kingdom
    Availability    National
    International 
    Founder John Reith
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    Waking the Dead logo, as seen in the opening title sequence.
    Created by Barbara Machin
    Starring Trevor Eve
    Sue Johnston
    Tara Fitzgerald
    Wil Johnson
    Félicité Du Jeu
    Country of origin  United Kingdom
    No.
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    geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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