Open space near HM Prison, Eastwood Park
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Open space near HM Prison, Eastwood Park
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 16 Jul 2010
This land presents a fine display of tall herb vegetation. It is publicly accessible and has a wide mown perimeter, perhaps for dog-walking and jogging; a public footpath to Thornbury cuts across it. The tree belt may once have been a feature of parkland but now serves to screen the prison from the east. What is clearly a new car park, perhaps for visitors, does not appear on maps and aerial photos (July 2010). Eastwood Park is a female closed local prison. It opened after refurbishment on 1 March 1996 when staff and prisoners were brought from Pucklechurch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastwood_Park_(HM_Prison) A Google search is instructive. OS Landranger labels it in its earlier mode as a young offenders institution. The prison takes its name from the nearby country house and estate, an entirely separate enterprise that offers facilities for conferences, training, weddings "and more".
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51.635784
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