Village Lock Up

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Village Lock Up by philandju as part of the Geograph project.

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Village Lock Up

Image: © philandju Taken: 17 Jan 2012

The squat, round, stone building in the midground is dated 1835 and was a lock up in Tottington, used mainly to confine drunks overnight until they sobered up. The brick building to the left is the Old Dungeon Inn, now closed and boarded up.

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.614946
Longitude
-2.342794