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Catterick refers to two settlements in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Catterick Village, sometimes merely Catterick, is the smaller of the two and lies on the A1 road. The other, Catterick Garrison, previously Catterick Camp, lies approximately six miles to the North West and is presently Europe's largest Army Garrison.
Catterick Village
The village dates back to Roman times, when Catteractonium was a Roman fort protecting the crossing of the Great North Road over the River Swale. It was mentioned in the poem Y Gododdin, where the Battle of Catraeth (thought to be Catterick, then a seat of the Kingdom of Rheged) led to the death of many soldiers. In later times, it prospered as a coaching town where travellers up the Great North Road would stop overnight and refresh themselves and their horses; today's Angel Inn was once a coaching inn. Saint Anne's Church overlooks the village and has Norman roots.
At the 2001 Census, Catterick Village had 2743 residents, most of whom work in the adjacent Garrison, in farming, or in the local towns of Richmond, Darlington, Northallerton or on Teesside. The village has its own barracks, previously RAF Catterick.
Catterick Garrison
The Garrison, at a population of around 12,000, plus a large temporary population of soldiers, dwarfs its younger neighbour. Rather than being the single fenced base some people envisage, it comprises a number of discrete barracks around which a town has developed; the Garrison has recently gained its first large supermarket, McDonalds and the like. Even the road signs have been changed to read "Town Centre" instead of "Camp Centre" (which is actually a roundabout). The Garrison has subsumbed three local villages to almost become (generally civilian-occupied) suburbs: Colburn, Scotton and Hipswell.
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