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Main Street, DERBY, DE73 8AN

A colourful roadside verge at Breedon on the Hill. Yellow Ranunculus ficaria and lilac Anemones, either A. blanda [from Greece] or the lilac form of A. nemorosa, our native white Wood Anemone.

Former pub on the Main Street, now used as a Business Centre. The building next door is a 17th century timber framed barn.

The Pinfold, or Pound, adjacent to the lock-up, was used to keep stray animals until they were claimed, for a fee to the Parish Image It is now being developed as a physic or herb garden.

Information about the lock-up and adjacent pinfold Image

Cramped and dark, lock-ups fell out of favour when social reformers won better rights for prisoners in the 19th century. Only a few survive, like this 18th-century one at Breedon-on-the-Hill. The tiny, one-room building is all about security. There is a stout door, no windows, and – because tiles or shingles might be removed from inside by an inmate eager to climb out – a solid stone roof. The adjoining wall is part of a secure enclosure or pound/Pinfold, in Medieval Britain, is an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land. A mulct (fine) had to be paid for their release.

A lock up built around 1793 for the detention of offenders against the law until they could be moved to a town prison

The tallest building on Main Street, Breedon on the Hill, looking down The Delph.

Directly opposite the pub is a roundhouse and also a pinfold. When they were in active service it's likely that villagers in the pub were keeping a close eye out for stray livestock and anyone unlucky enough to be incarcerated in the lock-up.

The Three Horseshoes, still in business (right), faces the former Breedon Inn across the old main road from Nottingham to Tamworth and Birmingham. The roundhouse is obscured in shadow.