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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.
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]
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 .
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.
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
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