Connaught Barracks, Dover was a military installation at Dover in

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History

The barracks, which were built about half a mile south of

Fort Burgoyne Fort Burgoyne, originally known as Castle Hill Fort, was built in the 1860s as one of the Palmerston forts around Dover in southeast England. It was built to a polygonal system with detached eastern and western redoubts, to guard the high ground ...

, were completed in July 1913. During the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

the barracks were used for the assembly of large quantities of men and supplies ready for shipment across the channel to the Western Front. A major project to rebuild the barracks, which took two years to complete and was undertaken by C Jenner & Sons Ltd, was finished in 1962. The

Queen's Lancashire Regiment The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (30th, 40th, 47th, 59th, 81st and 82nd Regiments of Foot) (QLR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King's Division. It was formed on 25 March 1970 at Connaught Barracks in Dover through ...

was formed at the barracks in March 1970. The 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment arrived at the barracks in July 1995 and was replaced by the 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment in August 2000: the 1st Battalion continued to occupy the site until the barracks closed in March 2006. Plans to use the barracks as an open prison were dropped in November 2006 and the site is now being redeveloped for housing.

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