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The Road to Justice, Temperance & Social Order via the Lock-ups of the 18th & 19th Centuries in Somerset & Wiltshire

Jan 30, 2022

England still retains a number of lock-ups, clinks or ‘blind houses’. They were used as staging posts to hold an offender on their route to a magistrate’s court. They were also used to incarcerate those disturbing the peace, vagrants, and drunks. The parish was...

The Road to Justice, Temperance & Social Order via the Lock-ups of the 18th & 19th Centuries in Somerset & Wiltshire

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