The Old Workhouse - Newport Pagnell Uk
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Norfolk12
N 52° 05.142 W 000° 43.407
30U E 655977 N 5773015
entrance off Silver street Newport Pagnell,
this is now a private house,
so please respect their privacy,
the gps was bouncing of all the walls here so and update would be appreciated
Waymark Code: WM3334
Location: North East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/02/2008
Views: 39
The Bridewell or House of Correction was known as the Workhouse. Newport Pagnell had two such places at different periods. One built by Samuel Christie was located off Silver Street, to the rear of the Working Men's Club.
the other The Old Renny Lodge is now a New Housing estate.
A brief History of the Workhouse Origin
The outcome of this extraction of wealth resulted in hordes of beggars, vagabonds and poor and impotent persons. This brought about an Act in the reign of Edward V1 " that any person who lived idle and loiteringly for the space of three days, being brought before two justices, should be marked with a hot iron on the breast with 'V' for vagabond, and be judged a slave to the person who brought him for two years, and if he absented himself fourteen days in the two years he could be marked with 'S' on the forehead or ball of the cheek and adjudged a slave to his master for life.
The hospital was used as a house of correction for all strumpets, night-walkers, pickpockets, vagrants and incorrigible and disobedient servants. You have need warned !!!
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