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Some lock-ups also had stocks, ducking stools, pillories, or pinfolds, alongside them and the origins of the 18th-century village lock-up evolved from much earlier examples of holding cells and devices. The Oxford English Dictionary refers to a round-house as a place of detention for arrested persons and dates its first written usage to 1589.
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.
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. The lock-up fell out of use in the 1890s, after a police station was constructed in nearby Filey. [1] [2] The building was grade II listed in ...
Eyam, Derbyshire; 18th century, on the village green. [19] Little Longstone, Derbyshire; stone stock-ends in a small walled recess on the village street, dating from the 17th century or earlier. [20] Canewdon, Essex; inside the village lock-up, dated 1775. [21] Aldbury, Hertfordshire; combined stocks and whipping post on the village green. [22]
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
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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The village lock-up on Stonegate. The village's name of Hunmanby originated with the Danes, appearing in King William's Domesday Book (published in 1086) as 'Hundemanbi' meaning 'farmstead of the hounds men', relating to the hunting down of wolves on the Yorkshire Wolds.