Location Windy Bank (now Bank Street) Bolton
County Lancashire
Year Opened unknown
Year Closed unknown
Century of Operation 1600-1699, 1700-1799
Remarks Potentially held prisoners taken after the 1644 Bolton Massacre in the first Civil War. Visible on a map of Windy Bank from 1797. In 'The History of Great and Little Bolton' (1823), John Brown mentions an 'Old Dungeon' contiguous to the shop of Israel Pemberton, a Primitive Quaker.
Further information can be found at
https://www.prisonhistory.org/lockup/bolton-dungeon/