In 1843 the East India Company purchased 116 acres of land with barrack buildings at Warley in Essex for £15,000 from H M Government for use as recruiting depôt. The barracks were altered and extended to provide quarters for officers, other ranks, and married men. The property was transferred bac...
[1] Secretary of State for India [2] Thomas Harris Devonshire of 8 Old Jewry London, gentleman, on behalf of South Essex Water Works Plan of property in margin
Two pieces of freehold land in the parish of Milton near Gravesend in Kent purchased in June 1799 by the East India Company from Francis Wadman for £410. It was intended that barracks should be built on the site for the recruits from Chatham, but this became unnecessary when the depôt moved to th...