# Horfield Barracks

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{{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](/source/Bristol)
|coordinates = {{Coord|51.49229|N|2.58330|W|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
|ownership = [Ministry of Defence](/source/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom))
|operator = {{army|United Kingdom}}
|built = 1843–1847
|used=1847-1966
|architect = 
|built_for = [War Office](/source/War_Office)
|garrison =
|occupants = 3rd Battalion the [Gloucestershire Regiment](/source/Gloucestershire_Regiment)
}}
'''Horfield Barracks''' is a former military installation in the [Horfield](/source/Horfield) area of [Bristol](/source/Bristol).

==History==
The barracks were built, largely in response to the [Bristol riots](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Cardwell_Reforms) and the barracks became the [depot](/source/Regimental_depot) for the [28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot](/source/28th_(North_Gloucestershire)_Regiment_of_Foot) and the [61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot](/source/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](/source/Childers_Reforms), the 28th and 61st regiments amalgamated to form the [Gloucestershire Regiment](/source/Gloucestershire_Regiment) with its depot in the barracks in 1881.<ref name=training/> The [3rd Battalion (Royal South Gloucestershire Militia)](/source/3rd_Battalion_(Royal_South_Gloucestershire_Militia)%2C_Gloucestershire_Regiment) of the regiment also established itself at Horfield Barracks.<ref name=post/>

During the [First World War](/source/World_War_I) the barracks also served as the 5th cavalry [depot](/source/Regimental_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](/source/3rd_The_King's_Own_Hussars), the [7th Queen's Own Hussars](/source/7th_Queen's_Own_Hussars), the [15th The King's Hussars](/source/15th_The_King's_Hussars) and the [19th Royal Hussars](/source/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](/source/World_War_II) 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>

==References==
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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

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