Victoria Barracks, Sydney

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Victoria Barracks is an Australian Army base in the suburb of Paddington in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Victoria Barracks houses the Headquarters Forces Command and is located between Oxford Street and Moore Park Road, immediately north of Moore Park fields and sports stadiums precinct. The Barracks is situated on land within the 'Sydney Common' proclaimed by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1811 "in trust for the benefit of the present and all succeeding inhabitants of Sydney". The Barracks also included to the south further parts of the Common for use by the British garrison as a cricket field and a rifle range. These were later returned to NSW colonial government public space and are the sites for the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney Football Stadium respectively. Listed on the Commonwealth Heritage List in 2004, the Barracks site contains one of the most important groups of Georgian military buildings in Australia. The Army Museum of NSW is housed in the original District Military...

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