Editing Military base (section)

== British military bases ==
{{Main|Overseas military bases of the United Kingdom}}

In the 18th and 19th centuries the [[Royal Engineers]] were largely responsible for erecting military bases in the British Isles and the British Empire. In 1792 the Chief Engineer was instructed to prepare the Barrack Construction estimates for Parliament and at the same time the Department of the Barrackmaster-General was established.

During the period from the 1840s through the 1860s barracks were constructed under supervision of the [[Royal Engineers]] in:
* [[Bristol]] (1847)
* [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]] (1848)
* [[Tower of London]] (1851)
* [[Sheerness]] (1854)
* [[Sheffield]] (1854)
* [[Curragh Camp]] (1855)
* [[Devonport, Devon|Devonport]] (1856)
* [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]] (1861)

The [[Cardwell Reforms]] (1872) ushered in another period of intensive Barrack building at [[Aldershot]], [[Portsmouth]], [[Plymouth]], [[London]], [[Woking]], [[Woolwich]], [[Dublin]], [[Belfast]], [[Malta]], [[Gibraltar]] and the [[Cape of Good Hope]].

In 1959 the Corps' Work Services was transferred to the civilian War Department Works Organization (later renamed Property Services Agency (PSA)) and by 1965 the (Specialist Teams Royal Engineers (STRE)) were formed to plan and execute Works projects worldwide.

Some British and Commonwealth naval bases are traditionally named, commissioned, and administered as though they were naval ships. For this reason they are sometimes called [[stone frigate]]s.