Glen Parva Barracks

Glen Parva Barracks
Glen Parva

Glen Parva Barracks
Glen Parva Barracks
Location within Leicestershire
Coordinates 52°34′59″N 01°08′42″W / 52.58306°N 1.14500°WCoordinates: 52°34′59″N 01°08′42″W / 52.58306°N 1.14500°W
Type Barracks
Site information
Operator  British Army
Site history
Built 1881
Built for War Office
In use 1881-1970

Glen Parva Barracks was a military installation at Glen Parva near South Wigston in Leicestershire.

History

The barracks opened under the name of Wigston Barracks in 1881.[1] Their creation took place as part of the Cardwell Reforms which encouraged the localisation of British military forces.[2] Originally the depot of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, tens of thousands of recruits and conscripts were trained there for deployment during the First World War.[3] The barracks went on to become the regional centre for infantry training as the Forester Brigade Depot in 1960.[4] They were closed in the late 1960s and most of the buildings were sold.[1] Although Glen Parva Young Offenders Institution now occupies much of the site[5] a unit of the Royal Army Pay Corps remained there until 1997.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Billets and Barracks". Green Tiger. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Echoes of the past in these Army cuts". 8 July 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Wigston in the First World War". Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Infantry Brigade Depots (Location)". Hansard. 7 March 1958. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "HM Prison Glen Parva Visiting Information". Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  6. ↑ Beazley, chapter 2

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