The Keep

The Keep, Dorchester is a piece of the previous district military enclosure of the 39th Regiment of Foot and the 75th Regiment of Foot. The military enclosure were worked in around 1880 and housed different regiments as units were amalgamated. It stopped to be utilized in 1958 and a large portion of the site was redeveloped during the 1960s, yet the keep stayed in Ministry of Defense hands and is presently utilized as a regimental historical center. It is a Grade II recorded building.

The Dorchester Depot Barracks were worked somewhere in the range of 1877 and 1881 on the site of a Militia sleeping quarters, which had been set up there minimal over 10 years earlier. Their creation occurred as a major aspect of the Cardwell Reforms which supported the localisation of British military forces. The site incorporated a huge motorcade ground, which was spread out between the Keep and the building currently known as the 'little keep' and flanked by block assembled encampment squares , the officers' chaos, a recreation center, stores, workplaces and other auxiliary structures.