[2] Before the military garrison was established the area was known as Lark Hill, part of Durrington Down, owing to it being the highest point in the parish.

[4] Much of Larkhill lies within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, an area rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments.

[5] The first modern settlement came in 1899, when a tented camp was established for units training on an area of Salisbury Plain that became known as Larkhill range.

The famed British Ordnance QF 25-pounder was developed by the school of artillery shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.

[16] In 1909, Horatio Barber, a flying enthusiast, rented a small piece of land in Larkhill.

Among these were George Bertram Cockburn,[17] a pioneer aviator, and Captain John Fulton who served with an artillery brigade, and it was partly as a result of their interest that the War Office quickly realised the importance of aircraft and founded the first army aerodrome in Larkhill in 1910.

2 Company of the Air Battalion Royal Engineers was established at Larkhill, the first flying unit of the armed forces to use aeroplanes as opposed to balloons.

[25][26] Larkhill Garrison is controlled by Headquarters South West based at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth Camp.

[27][28][29] The following units are based at the garrison:[30][31][29][32] The comic book V for Vendetta (and its film adaptation) featured a fictional detention centre at Larkhill, where minorities and enemies of the fascist state were eliminated.

The writer, Alan Moore, said that he chose Larkhill because of the obvious military connections, but also because of a particularly unpleasant hitchhiking trip that he had around the area.