Clewer Park can be found within the village of

Clewer Clewer (also known as Clewer Village) is an ecclesiastical parish and an area of Windsor in the county of Berkshire, England. Clewer makes up three wards of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, namely Clewer North, Clewer South and Cle ...

to the west of Windsor, England. Today Clewer Park consists of a small estate of residential homes built during the mid-1950s and a public open parkland. In former times this land was occupied by the Clewer Park estate. Clewer Park was originally a medieval house. It was modified and eventually bought by Sir

Daniel Gooch Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet (24 August 1816 – 15 October 1889) was an English railway locomotive and transatlantic cable engineer. He was the first Locomotive Superintendent, Superintendent of Locomotive Engines on the Great Western Rai ...

, the 19th century industrialist, railway engineer and engineer responsible for the first transatlantic cables. More famously, the park hosted Clewer Barracks. Built in 1796-1800 it was designed to accommodate the Royal Horse Guards. King George III's favourite regiment The Blues took up residence in what was originally carved out of Windsor Great Park. The cavalry used the area for training, manoeuvres and war preparations alongside nearby Wingfield Park. Queen Victoria subsequently authorised modernisation and upgrade of the troopers billets and officers mess after a personal visit exposed to her its unhygienic inadequacies. In 1875 she opened a brand new building named after Lord Combermere, a former colonel of the Household Cavalry. During

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, the house was used as accommodation for female

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staff.

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Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead British country houses destroyed in the 20th century Windsor, Berkshire Country houses in Berkshire {{Berkshire-geo-stub