CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Lock-ups at Broughton, Burwell, Coveney and Eaton Socon.

I have located twelve exisiting lock-ups in Cambridgeshire and half of them would have been in the historic county of Huntingdonshire which was amalgamated with Cambridgeshire in 1974. Lock-ups in this area are generally known as 'The Cage'. The lock-up at Orwell was demolished in 1979.

The lock-up at Broughton is situated in the old animal pound in Causeway Road, PE28 3AR

and dates to about 1840.

 

 

BROUGHTON

OS Grid Reference: TL2812577908
OS Grid Coordinates: 528125, 277908
Latitude/Longitude: 52.3842, -0.1189

Photo by Dave & Amanda Jones with expressed permission.

Once again I am grateful to Dave & Amanda Jones for the use of their photograph.

The interior.

Photo by Sean Hickin with expressed permission

 

I am grateful to Sean Hickin for allowing me to use his Flickr photograph.

 



There is an information plaque on the wall :

 



Photo by Michael Trulove on Geograph.

© Copyright Michael Trolove and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Year taken 2011

 

 

The lock-up was Grade 11 listed 16.8.1971 (No.53796) and described as :

 Late C19 lock up. Rectangular plan. Gault brick, plain tile roof. Plank door.
Listing NGR: TL2812577908

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.

 

 

 

 

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Lock Up - Broughton - Cambridgeshire - England

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The sturdy lock-up at Burwell is situated in Casburn Lane and dates to about 1830. It was later used to store the village fire engine when double doors were fitted. It would appear that it originally had two cells and the doorways have been bricked up, leaving two venitalions grilles above.
It has been restored by the Parish Council and is now a builder's storeroom.

 BURWELL

Photo by Tony Lewis.

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I am grateful to Tony Lewis for ther use of his Geograph photograph.

A plaque on the wall reads :

 

'The village lock-up built about 1830

and used for overnight detention of offenders until the 1890's

Later housed the fire engine.

Burwell History Society

2006

Burwell Parish Council'.

 

See also www.burwell.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

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The lock-up alongside the old animal pound at Coveney is situated on the edge of the village 
in Main Street and dates to about 1850.

COVENEY

Photo by Keith Evans.

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I am Grateful to Keith Evans for the use of his Geograph photograph.

 

 

The complex was Grade 11 listed 18.8.1988 (No.49529) and described as :

 

Pound and lockup. 1850. Large gault brick, English bond. Square pound with adjoining lockup on the south side. Lockup has plain tiled roof and doorway in west end wall with date stone above.
Pound has moulded brick coping.

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence:

 

 

 

 

 

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The lock-up at Eaton Socon is situated at 16 School Lane, PE19 7AG.

It has two cells and dates to 1826.

 

 

 



 

 

EATON SOCON 

OS Grid Reference: TL1705758806
OS Grid Coordinates: 517057, 258806
Latitude/Longitude: 52.2150, -0.2881

Photo by Roy Pledger

 

 

It was Grade 11 listed 28.3.1974 (No.53325) and described as :

 

Circa 1826, restored 1963. 1 storey. Red brick, patched upper part in Gault brick. Tiled roof with brick gable coping and dentil eaves course. Pointed arched entrance with studded boarded door and wrought iron grilled over.

Stone plaque on west wall inscribed "The Eaton Socon Cage. This
ancient lock-up was built in 1826 for the confinement of local malefactors.
Restored in 1963 it is now in the care of the Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire
Naturalists Trust.
Listing NGR: TL1705758806

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.

 

 

 

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