Nation England
County Lancashire
Location unknown Walton Le Dale
Map location in the vicinity
Year opened unknown
Year closed unknown
Century of Operation 1800-1899
Building Type Lock Up, Dwelling House
'This lock-up house is merely a cellar in the keepers house, and is unfit for use; a new lock-up house, however, with court-house attached, is now in the course of erection. The keeper said that there was not so much crime in the neighbourhood as formerly, and that the offences for which persons were confined in the lock-up house were principally drunkenness and vagrancy.'
Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.66
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