Ludgershall (/ˈlʌɡərʃɔːl/ LUG-ər-shawl, with a hard g) is a town and civil parish 16 miles (26 km) north east of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.

The parish includes Faberstown which is contiguous with Ludgershall, and the hamlet of Biddesden which lies 2 miles (3.2 km) to the east, on the border with Hampshire.

[citation needed] After the building of Ludgershall Castle in the late 11th century, the village grew to its south and became a medieval borough.

[5] Among the oldest buildings are the Queen's Head public house, from the 16th and 18th centuries,[6] and cottages on Castle Street from the late 17th.

[7] Windmill Hill has been part of the Salisbury Plain Training Area since c.1898, and land in the west of the parish has been used by the Army since 1939.

Military activity, including the construction of Tidworth Camp nearby, led to a substantial increase in the population of the parish.

[5] At the beginning of the 20th century, a local MP, Walter Faber, began building to the east of the town on land in Hampshire.

Some 600 years later a seal was found by a ploughman, bearing a knight in armour and holding a lance shield with the inscription "Sigillum Millonis De Glocestria".

[11] It was re-erected some time in the early 19th century in the area that formed the old market place, near the present Queen's Head pub at the end of High Street.

It is some 12 feet in height and in 1897, to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, an ornamental iron fence was erected around the cross.

It is thought the original sculptured panels represented: The railings were designed by A. H. Huth and bear a crown in each corner.

[16] There is a large monument to Richard Brydges (1500–1588), his wife Jane Spencer and their family, described by Pevsner as "one of the most important of its date in England".

[25] By 1894 the operator was the Midland and South Western Junction Railway, providing services between Cheltenham and Southampton.

[26][27] In 1943 a short spur was added to serve the military depot at Ludgershall, to the south of the main road.

[28] The spur at Ludgershall and line south to Andover remain open, to allow the Army to transport tanks and other equipment to and from the depot (until its closure in 2015) and onwards to the Salisbury Plain Training Area.

It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for all significant local government functions.

[35] The community is well provided for in terms of entertainment and shops with two pubs and social clubs, a number of small independent traders, and two supermarket chains.