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  2. Village lock-up - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Hunmanby lock-up - Wikipedia

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    Hunmanby lock-up is a historic building in Hunmanby, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed in 1834 as the village lock-up , for the temporary detention of people. The village's animal pound was in poor condition, so a new pound was constructed, adjoining the lock-up.

  4. Smisby lock-up - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Wavertree Lock-up - Wikipedia

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    Wavertree Lock-up is an 18th-century grade II listed village lock-up located in Wavertree, Liverpool, England. 53°23′54″N 2°54′52″W  /  53.3983°N 2.9144°W  / 53.3983; -2.9144  ( Wavertree Lock-up, Liverpool

  6. Everton Lock-Up - Wikipedia

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    Everton Lock-Up, sometimes referenced by one of its nicknames such as Prince Rupert's Tower or Prince Rupert's Castle, is a village lock-up located on Everton Brow in Everton, Liverpool. The 18th-century structure is one of two Georgian lock-ups that still survive in Liverpool ; the other is in Wavertree .

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  8. Wheatley, Oxfordshire - Wikipedia

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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).

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    Shortly after arriving in California, she went to a convenience store and heard a man preaching in the parking lot. The second time she saw him, the pair exchanged numbers and quickly started dating.