Caterham Barracks was a military installation in
Caterham
Caterham () is a town in the Tandridge (district), Tandridge district of Surrey, England. The town is administratively divided into two: Caterham on the Hill, and Caterham Valley, which includes the main town centre in the middle of a dry valle ...
,
Surrey
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.
History
The barracks were built as a
depot
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Places
* Depot, Poland, a village
* Depot Glacier (disambiguation)
* Depot Island (disambiguation)
* Depot Nunatak
* Depot Peak
Brands and enterprises
* Maxwell Street Depot, a restaurant in Chicago, United States
* Of ...
for the
Foot Guards regiments in 1877. The construction reflected a more humane style of barrack design in the aftermath of the
Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ...
; the barrack blocks included better sanitation as well as cross-ventilation and cross-lighting of sleeping facilities for the first time. A local public house (the Caterham Arms) which was frequented by soldiers was targeted by the
IRA with a
bomb injuring 23 civilians and 10 off-duty soldiers in August 1975. The barracks were closed in 1995 and the site was redeveloped for housing using urban village principles after planning consent was given in June 1990.
References
Installations of the British Army
Barracks in England
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