Information for record number MWA3113:
Site of an Asylum near Asylum Farm, Stretton on Dunsmore

Summary The Warwick County Asylum for Juvenile Delinquents, a house of correction, dating to the Imperial period. It was situated to the south east of Stretton on Dunsmore.
What Is It?  
Type: House Of Correction, Punishment Place
Period: Imperial - Industrial (1751 AD - 1913 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Stretton on Dunsmore
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 41 71
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
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Description

  
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1 In Stretton the Warwick County Asylum for Juvenile Delinquents was established in 1818. It was a private venture, taking charge of convicted boys of 14-16 years of age, who were kept for two years and taught shoemaking and tailoring. The reformatory was closed between before 1900 - probably 1861 and 1871 - and is now commemorated only by Asylum Farm, half a mile S of the village.
2 Mentioned in White's Directory.
3 Now called Hill Farm.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Victoria County History, vol 6, Warwickshire
Author/originator: Salzman L F (ed)
Date: 1951
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Volume/Sheet: VI
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: History, Directory and Gazetteer of Warwickshire
Author/originator: White F
Date: 1874
Page Number: 851
Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Unpublished document
Author/originator: Pinches, S
Date: 1998
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period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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monument VILLAGE * A collection of dwelling-houses and other buildings, usually larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a simpler organisation and administration than the latter. back
monument INDUSTRIAL * This is the top term for the class. See INDUSTRIAL Class List for narrow terms. back
monument PUNISHMENT PLACE * A site where acts of corporal and capital punishment were carried out. back
monument HOUSE OF CORRECTION * An institution for the imprisonment of vagrants and misdemeanants. back
monument FARM * A tract of land, often including a farmhouse and ancillary buildings, used for the purpose of cultivation and the rearing of livestock, etc. Use more specific type where known. back

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