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A village lock-up is a historic building once used for the temporary detention of people in England and Wales, mostly where official prisons or criminal courts were beyond easy walking distance. Lockups were often used for the confinement of drunks , who were usually released the next day, or to hold people being brought before the local ...
The lock-up (or roundhouse) in Smisby, Derbyshire, England, is a village lock-up dating from the late 18th century. Such lock-ups were fairly common in England at that time and were used to hold miscreants , often drunkards , or other low-level offenders awaiting transportation to the local assizes , for short periods of time.
Tithe barn Interior of village lock-up. Most of the surviving houses in the village are 18th-century or earlier in construction, and people still live there today. There is a 14th-century tithe barn, a medieval church, an inn dating from the 15th century, an 18th-century lock-up and a village school which is still used today. [6]
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Attractions in Castle Cary include a small circular eighteenth-century prison called the roundhouse. This is a temporary prison, or village lock-up. It was built in 1779 by Mr WM Clark for £23, from money left to the poor of Castle Cary in 1605. [12] The structure is circular, stone and has a domed roof.
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The village lock-up, built in 1834, is a stone building in the shape of a hexagonal pyramid, [8] near the edge of the former quarry. It has a heavy padlocked door and the floor space is about 6 feet (1.8 m) square with a headroom of about 8 feet (2.4 m).