{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military structure |name=Horfield Barracks |image=Horfield Barracks 2.jpg |caption = Horfield Barracks entrance |type = Barracks |map_type = Bristol |pushpin_map_caption = Location within Bristol |location = Bristol |coordinates = {{Coord|51.49229|N|2.58330|W|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} |ownership = Ministry of Defence |operator = {{army|United Kingdom}} |built = 1843–1847 |used=1847-1966 |architect = |built_for = War Office |garrison = |occupants = 3rd Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment }} '''Horfield Barracks''' is a former military installation in the Horfield area of Bristol.
==History== The barracks were built, largely in response to the Bristol riots of 1831, and completed between 1843 and 1847.<ref name=post>{{cite web|url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Footsteps-past-Horfield-Barracks/story-22930571-detail/story.html|title=Footsteps into the past - Horfield Barracks|publisher=Bristol Post|date=16 September 2014|accessdate=9 November 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109164207/http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Footsteps-past-Horfield-Barracks/story-22930571-detail/story.html|archivedate=9 November 2014}}</ref> During the Crimean War a mutiny took place and in 1868 a sergeant murdered a private soldier in a dispute over money.<ref name=post/> In 1873 a system of recruiting areas based on counties was instituted under the Cardwell Reforms and the barracks became the depot for the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot and the 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot.<ref name=training>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/depot/1873.htm |title=Training Depots |publisher=Regiments.org |accessdate=16 October 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210172841/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/depot/1873.htm |archivedate=10 February 2006 |df= }}</ref> Following the Childers Reforms, the 28th and 61st regiments amalgamated to form the Gloucestershire Regiment with its depot in the barracks in 1881.<ref name=training/> The 3rd Battalion (Royal South Gloucestershire Militia) of the regiment also established itself at Horfield Barracks.<ref name=post/>
During the First World War the barracks also served as the 5th cavalry depot<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1167|title=History of Horfield|publisher=Vision of Britain|accessdate=21 June 2016}}</ref> providing accommodation for the 3rd The King's Own Hussars, the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, the 15th The King's Hussars and the 19th Royal Hussars.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1914-1918.net/cavalry-depots.html|title=The locations of the Cavalry depots|publisher=The Long, Long Trail|accessdate=6 December 2014}}</ref> Life there is vividly recorded in the memoir of one soldier from Gloucestershire who was sent to Horfield as a new recruit, having joined up immediately following his 18th birthday.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bullock |first=Arthur |title=Gloucestershire Between the Wars: A Memoir |publisher=The History Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7524-4793-3}} (Pages 50-52)</ref>
The barracks were decommissioned after the Second World War and demolished in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.about-bristol.co.uk/hor-02.asp |title=Horfield, Gloucester Road |publisher=About Bristol |accessdate=9 November 2014 }}</ref> The site became a telephone engineering works in the late 1960s and was redeveloped for housing in around 2000.<ref name=post/> The former chapel survives as a nursery and is a grade II listed building <ref>{{NHLE|num=1202235|desc=OLD CHAPEL BUILDINGS, 653A, GLOUCESTER ROAD|grade=II|access-date=21 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Horfield - Snapdragons Nursery |url=https://www.snapdragonsnursery.com/horfield |access-date=21 February 2024}}</ref>
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Category:Installations of the British Army Category:Buildings and structures in Bristol Category:Military installations established in 1847 Category:Former barracks in England