KENT. Lock-ups at Sandwich, Smarden, Wateringbury and Yalding.

 

A sign on a cottage in St Peter's Street (formerly Jail Street), at Sandwich, CT13 9BW declares it to be The Old Town Gaol.

 

 

 

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The lock-up at Smarden is situated at Munks Farm, Headland Lane, TN27 8PJ and is in PRIVATE OWNERSHIP having been moved there from its original position  in Cage Lane in 1864.

It dates to the 1840's.

PLEASE RESPECT PRIVATE PROPERTY

SMARDEN

2013 photo's by Martin Brooke with expressed permission

 

 

 

Photographs copyright Smarden WI with permission.

 

I am very grateful to Smarden WI for allowing me to copy these photographs.

 

 

 

 

I am grateful to Martin Brooks from Smarden Local History Society for sending me photographs and the following information :

 

"I have located two images of the Smarden Lock-up which are attached.  The building has been at Munks Farm since 1864 when it was bought along with the old stocks.  It has been used as a corn / wood store ever since.  The immediate previous owner of Munks Farm never touched it and left it full of the wood that was in when he bought it.  The current owner has talked about a restoration programme and to this end we have looked at it and made recommendations, nothing has yet been done.

A local farm hand (retired) once said that he had moved the lock-up to Munks farm from another farm in about 1964 but we have always understood that the move only happened once.  If he is correct in his assertion, then there were two moves, 1864 and 1964.  It was originally built to accommodate rowdy Navvies who were building the railway in the 1840s and had fallen into disuse by 1864.  Cage Lane in Smarden indicates where it was originally located".

 

 

It was Grade 11 listed 10.10.1980 (No.181173) and described as :

 

This former village lock-up was sited here in 1864. It is a small square wooden
shed with little square windows in the north and south walls, which still have
their original iron fastenings across them and a door in the west wall with
its original iron bar; the roof has been renewed.
Listing NGR: TQ8646243522

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

 

 

 

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The lock-up at Wateringbury is situated in  Bow Road, ME18 5DG

and it dates to the 19th century.

 

 



The Old Village Lock Up to the South West of Munk's Farmhouse - Smarden - Kent - England

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WATERINGBURY

OS Grid Reference: TQ6914153442
OS Grid Coordinates: 569141, 153442
Latitude/Longitude: 51.2551, 0.4225 

 

Photo by John Gilham with expressed permission.

 

I am grateful to John Gilham for allowing me to copy these photographs (www.wateringbury.blogspot.com)

 

 

It was Grade 11 listed 19.4.1985 (No.178893) and described as :

 

Lock-up C19,built against bank that now bounds car park. 3 sides of random
rubble stone with flat roof of cement paving slabs. Arched doorway in
northern face, the wooden dome damaged. Now used as road-menders hut.
Listing NGR: TQ6914153442

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

 

 

 

 

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 The lock-up at Yalding is situated on The Green in Vicarage Road, ME18 6DS.
It was built in 1786 at a cost of £13.5s.




YALDING

OS Grid Reference: TQ6994250259
OS Grid Coordinates: 569942, 150259
Latitude/Longitude: 51.2262, 0.4324

I am grateful to Tony Cramer from Yalding History (http://yaldinghistory.webplus.net/ ) for sending me these two photographs and the following information :

"The local constable, an office that has its origins in manorial medieval times, maintained Law and Order. In dealing with the petty criminal, it was agreed in Vestry that a village 'Lock-up' should be erected on The Green to hold people overnight, before their appearance with the local Justice of the Peace the next morning. The Churchwardens gave out a notice on June 10th 1785, that 'the CAGE which is to be built will be put out to any Carpenter that will take it on the lowest terms, and to be built on the same plan of that at Marden'. They had been to Marden in 1784 to check the cage at a cost of 1s.6d. An allowance was paid towards building the cage of 7s.6d., and it was actually built In August 1786 for £13.5s.

One record of its use from Maidstone Journal of 1845 reads, ' On Friday last May-day, the dancing sweeps and their lasses, a goodly number altogether were performing near the bridge in this town, when an express came from Hunton, stating that just before they had plundered. Mr W Mercer's oast of his workman's dinner and a pair of shoes, which were found on one of the them. Stykes our constable lodged the batch in the cage and on Saturday morning they were taken before T T Alkin Esq., who discharged all but the man who wore the shoes, who was committed for trial.'

The 'Cage' or lock-up as we call it, was used again when on Tuesday morning of September 25th 1855 a number of Mr Bannerman's hop-pickers at Hunton. struck for advanced rates and pending the settlement some of them went to a beer house at Yalding and drank freely. Then they went to Mr Mill's hop garden and tried to incite pickers tThe local constable, an office that has its origins in manorial medieval times, maintained Law and Order. In dealing with the petty criminal, it was agreed in Vestry that a village 'Lock-up' should be erected on The Green to hold people overnight, before their appearance with the local Justice of the Peace the next morning. The Churchwardens gave out a notice on June 10th 1785, that 'the CAGE which is to be built will be put out to any Carpenter that will take it on the lowest terms, and to be built on the same plan of that at Marden'. They had been to Marden in 1784 to check the cage at a cost of 1s.6d. An allowance was paid towards building the cage of 7s.6d., and it was actually built In August 1786 for £13.5s.
here to strike. The bailiff required their immediate departure upon which two of them named George Forster and Elias Job Muggeridge threatened to break his head and used much abusive and threatening language. Upon the constables being sent for they took themselves off, but after great exertion they were apprehended and taken to the lock-up on the village green. The next day they were taken before Colonel Fletcher and were remanded   
until Thursday when they were taken before the magistrates in Malling and committed".

 

 

It was Grade 11 listed 23.5.1967 (No.174996) and described as :

 

Lock-up. Late C18 or C19. Red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile
roof. Single storey, with dentilled brick eaves cornice and
pyramidal roof. No windows. Central door to front, of studded
vertical boarding with diagonal boarded backing, three long heavy
hinges, and iron judas hinged towards top. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ6994250259

Source: English Heritage

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

 

 

 

 

 

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The Village Lockup - Yalding - Kent - England

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