Chetwynd Barracks

Chetwynd Barracks is a military installation at Chilwell in Nottinghamshire.

History
The Chilwell depot and barracks were built for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps shortly after the First World War on the former site of the National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell which had been completely devastated by an exposion in July 1918. The site continued to be used as a central ordnance depot after the Second World War and, although the central vehicle kit store closed in 1958, it continued to operate as a general stores depot and a vehicle workshop.

The site was renamed Chetwynd Barracks, after Viscount Chetwynd who had been Managing Director of the National Shell Filling Factory, in 1995 and is now the home of 49 (East) Brigade.