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The majority of surviving village lock-ups date from the 18th and 19th centuries when rural communities struggled to police thefts, burglaries, shootings, drunkenness, the obstruction of watchmen and the stealing of livestock.
Some lock-ups, which, today, sit within sleepy 20th century housing estates, were once located at the centre of busy communities, surrounded by facilities such as shops and public houses. Others, located on the outskirts of a village or town, have become consumed by urban sprawl.
For the purposes of the project, we have adopted a broad definition of a local lock-up: any building or structure that was used to confine or restrain temporarily those accused of committing a criminal act or apprehended for drunken, disorderly, or riotous behaviour, between 1500 and 1999.
Following a section on the reform and rebuilding of prisons, this page describes, in alphabetical order, the most important individual prisons and lockups in London.
26 Σεπ 2023 · The fascinating history of village lock-ups in Essex. It's late on a Saturday night and noisy revellers throng the town centres. All are having fun, but anyone whose drunkenness turns disorderly may get a free lift to a police station to spend the night sobering up in a cell.
Lock ups largely disappeared from London by the mid-19 th century with the expansion of the Metropolitan Police Area in 1839, and the widespread establishment of police stations with holding cells. The internal cells and more structured policing left lock ups such as Cranford redundant.
Until the 19th century Cranford was a small village on the Bath Road (now the A4) - the main route leading into London from the west. Robbers preyed on wealthy travellers going in and out of the city, and when they were caught, the local constable locked them up in this small, dark, cold ‘Highwayman’s Cage’.
