Places to visit
| England The Tower of London 0207 480 6358 www.camelotintl.com/tower_site/ The Clink Prison Museum (debtors’ prison) 1 Clink Street, London SE1 8DG 0207 403 6515 www.clink.co.uk www.london-se1.co.uk/attractions/clink.html The Castle Museum (includes the old prison) Norwich Norfolk 01603 223624 www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/ Guildhall Museum (including full size reconstruction of life on a prison hulk) Rochester Kent 01634 843666 www.medway.gov.uk/index/leisure/museums/2465.html The Tolhouse Museum (former prison) Great Yarmouth Norfolk 01493 858900 www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=200.45 Boston Guildhall Museum (see the cells that housed the Pilgrim Fathers) South Street Boston Lincolnshire 01205 365954 www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/venueDetails.asp?venuecode=1865 Lincoln Castle (the 1841 gaol has a chapel with pews divided according to the separate system). Lincoln Contact Lincoln Education Centre – 01522 512575 www.lincolncastle.com |
The House of Correction (same model as the 1820 Bedford house of correction, but with a courtroom) Cotswold Countryside Collection Northleach Gloucestershire.01451 860715 http://archive.thisisthecotswolds.co.uk/2004/1/9/8863.html |
| Gloucester Prison Museum (the original penitentiary design) HMP Gloucester 01452 529551. The Galleries of Justice (court and prison) Shire Hall Nottingham 0115 952 0555 www.galleriesofjustice.org.uk/index.asp York Castle Museum (see where Dick Turpin was held before his execution) The Castle York YO1 9RY 01904 633932 www.york.castle.museum/ Border History Museum (the old Gaol) Hexham Northumberland 01434 652349 www.northumberland.gov.uk/VG/hexham.htm |
Wales Beaumaris Gaol and Courthouse Beaumaris Anglesey Gwnynedd 01248 810921 www.angleseyheritage.org/doc.asp?cat=1801&doc=1061 |
Northern Ireland Down Museum The Mall Downpatrick 01396 625218 |
Scotland Castle Jail Jedburgh Borders Region 01835 836 254 www.discovertheborders.co.uk/places/55.html Inveraray Jail (19th century jail) Church Square Inveraray Argyll 01499302381 www.inverarayjail.co.uk/ |
| (Links checked 21 May 2006) |