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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 ...
A village lock-up in the 18th century, probably circa 1776, and is located conveniently near the Wheelwrights Arms. This is now one of the village's many Grade II listed buildings , and was last used in 1905 by errant pupils to lock up the school's unpopular bursar.
Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon, which had existed since 1974. [1] Part of the ceremonial county of Somerset , Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of 220 square miles (570 km 2 ), two-thirds of which is ...
The South Somerset district occupies an area of 370 square miles (958 km 2), stretching from its borders with Devon and Dorset to the edge of the Somerset Levels. The district has a population of about 156,000, [34] and has Yeovil as its administrative centre. There are 69 scheduled monuments in South Somerset. [35]
The lock-up, Kingsbury Episcopi. Other historic buildings in the village include many old houses, a public house called the Wyndham Arms, [5] a Wesleyan church [6] and an octagonal village lock-up that was used to detain drunks and suspected criminals. [7] The East Lambrook Manor dates from the 15th century. [8]
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Castle Cary (/ ˌ k ɑː s əl ˈ k ɛər i /) is a market town and civil parish in south Somerset, England, 5 miles (8 km) north west of Wincanton and 8 miles (12.9 km) south of Shepton Mallet, at the foot of Lodge Hill and on the River Cary, a tributary of the Parrett.
This week’s top-selling home in Somerset is an appealing multi-family that sold for $750,000. Built in historic Somerset Village in 1900, 190 Maple St. is the ultimate investment property ...