Worthy Down Barracks


Worthy Down Station is a Tri-Service station near Winchester, Hampshire. It is the headquarters of the Defence College of Logistics, Policing and Administration. The headquarters of the Royal Logistic Corps and Adjutant General's Corps are also located at Worthy Down. Worthy Down forms part of the wider Winchester Garrison. DCLPA provides logistic support, policing, guarding, personnel administration and leadership training to all three armed services. The site is located between the villages of South Wonston and Kings Worthy.

History

The site was handed over to the Royal Army Pay Corps in 1960 and became home to the Electronic Accounting Development Unit who housed their computer centre with its IBM 705 system there. The computer was used to process the 1961 UK census electronically for the first time.
With the merger of the Royal Army Pay Corps into the Adjutant General's Corps in 1992 the barracks became the headquarters of the Adjutant General's Corps and training depot for members of the Staff and Personnel Support, Education and Training Services and Army Legal Service branches.
In 2012 the RAF School of Administration moved to Worthy Down from Southwick Park, near Portsmouth, resulting in all three schools of the Defence School of Personnel Administration being co-located on one site.
On 9 June 2014 the Ministry of Defence announced that a new £250 million Defence College of Logistics, Policing and Administration was to be built at Worthy Down, with training facilities and living accommodation for up to 2,000 students and staff. The facility, which brings the training for key support roles for the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force onto a single site for the first time, was completed in 2018.