Fenkle Street drill hall, Alnwick

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Fenkle Street drill hall
Alnwick
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Fenkle Street drill hall, Alnwick
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Fenkle Street drill hall
Location within Northumberland
Coordinates 55°24′50″N1°42′29″W / 55.41387°N 1.70807°W / 55.41387; -1.70807 Coordinates: 55°24′50″N1°42′29″W / 55.41387°N 1.70807°W / 55.41387; -1.70807
TypeDrill hall
Site history
Built1834
Built for War Office
In use1834-1995

The Fenkle Street drill hall is a military installation in Alnwick, Northumberland. It is a Grade II* listed building. [1]

Alnwick market town in north Northumberland, England

Alnwick is a market town in Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town. The population at the 2011 Census was 8,116.

Northumberland County of England

Northumberland is a unitary authority and a Historic County in North East England. The northernmost county of England, the unitary authority borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham and Tyne and Wear to the south and the Scottish Borders to the north. To the east is the North Sea coastline with a path 103 kilometres (64 mi) long. The county town is Alnwick, although the county council is based in Morpeth.

Listed building Protected historic structure in the United Kingdom

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History

The building, which was originally designed as a library and completed in 1834, [1] was extended to form the headquarters of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers in 1887. [2] [3] The 1st Volunteer Battalion moved to the Hencotes drill hall in Hexham in 1891 but D Company remained at Alnwick and this unit, together with C Company and G Company, evolved to become the 7th Battalion the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1908. [4] The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front. [5]

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Raised in 1674 as one of three 'English' units in the Dutch Anglo-Scots Brigade, it accompanied William III to England in the November 1688 Glorious Revolution and became part of the English establishment in 1689.

Hencotes drill hall, Hexham

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Hexham market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England

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The battalion was reduced to a cadre at Ashington in 1969 but reconstituted as the 6th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers with its headquarters at Fenkle Street in 1975. [6] After the battalion headquarters moved to the Ravensdowne drill hall in Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1975, a rifle platoon forming part of W Company remained at Fenkle Street [6] but, in the 1990s, moved to the Lisburn Terrace Army Reserve Centre. [7] The Fenkle Street building was subsequently converted into offices and is now occupied by the Northumberland County Council Register Office. [8]

Ashington Town and parish in Northumberland, England

Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, with a population of 27,864 at the 2011 Census. It was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is 15 miles (24 km) north of Newcastle upon Tyne, west of the A189 and bordered to the south by the River Wansbeck. The North Sea coast at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is 3 miles (5 km) away.

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers infantry regiment of the British Army

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division. Currently, the regiment has two battalions: the 1st battalion, part of the Regular Army, is an armoured infantry battalion based in Tidworth, Wiltshire, and the fifth battalion, part of the Army Reserve, is based across the northeast of England. There are also a number of independent Reservist Fusilier sub-units based across England. Whilst the Fusiliers traditionally recruited in specific counties, today, as an English regiment, the Fusiliers recruit nationally. The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was largely unaffected by the infantry reforms that were announced in December 2004, but under the Army 2020 reduction in the size of the Army, its second battalion was merged into the first in 2014.

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Berwick-upon-Tweed is a town in the county of Northumberland. It is the northernmost town in England, at the mouth of the River Tweed on the east coast, 2 1⁄2 miles (4 km) south of the Scottish border. Berwick is approximately 56 miles (90 km) east-south east of Edinburgh, 65 miles (105 km) north of Newcastle upon Tyne and 345 miles (555 km) north of London.

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References

  1. 1 2 "27, Fenkle Street". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Kelly's Directory of Northumberland (1894)" . Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "4th Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 20 October 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  4. ↑ "7th Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 21 October 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  5. ↑ "Northumberland Fusiliers". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  6. 1 2 "6th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  7. ↑ "Local Army directory". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "Our register offices". Northumberland County Council. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
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