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Tag: Roundhouse

The Round House and Stocks

By WVAclone Posted on 23 January 2013 Posted in Buildings Tagged with Lockup, Roundhouse

Wheatley’s best known landmark is its six-faced, pyramid lock-up of 1834. This ‘round house’ or ‘keep’, a temporary holding place for those arrested before they were taken before the Justices, was built on the parish stone pits where parish ‘paupers’ …

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The Most Difficult Village

By WVAclone Posted on 6 December 2012 Posted in Buildings, People Tagged with Lockup, Roundhouse

SAMUEL WILBERFORCE, the bishop of Oxford from 1845 to 1869, described Wheatley as “the most difficult village” in his diocese. One hundred and fifty years ago, it was a place beset with social problems which in our day we might …

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