Information for record number MWA3296:
Site of Stocks, Smalley Place, Kenilworth

Summary The site of stocks, in which an offender's wrists and/or ankles were held as a punishment. These stocks, which dated to the Imperial period were earlier sited in Bridge Street. This site was in Smalley Place in front of the Police Station.
What Is It?  
Type: Punishment Place, Stocks
Period: Imperial - Industrial (1751 AD - 1913 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Kenilworth
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 28 71
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 When the stocks were removed from Bridge Street, they were placed in Borrowell Lane, opposite the pound. This was apparently for two reasons: the large increase in traffic in the former place and the proximity of the new site to a school (where apparently the children could be relied on to mete out fair punishment). No dates are known for the move etc but we do know that they were eventually removed from here by the road surveyor)and a local man could remember (sometime in the 20's) repairing a wagon that had previously been repaired with part of these stocks.
2 The site now is in front of the Police Station.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Yesterday's Town-Kenilworth
Author/originator: Drew J
Date: 1982
Page Number: 61
Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Site Visit
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: Thompson D J
Date: 1983
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 3264
   
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
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 SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument SCHOOL * An establishment in which people, usually children, are taught. back
monument FAIR * A site where a periodical gathering of buyers, sellers and entertainers, meet at a time ordained by charter or statute or by ancient custom. back
monument ROAD * A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles. back
monument INDUSTRIAL * This is the top term for the class. See INDUSTRIAL Class List for narrow terms. back
monument BRIDGE * A structure of wood, stone, iron, brick or concrete, etc, with one or more intervals under it to span a river or other space. Use specific type where known. back
monument PUNISHMENT PLACE * A site where acts of corporal and capital punishment were carried out. back
monument POLICE STATION * The office or headquarters of a local police force, or of a police district. back
monument POUND * A pen, often circular and stone-walled, for rounding up livestock. back
monument STOCKS * An instrument of punishment, in which the offender was placed in a sitting position in a timber frame, with holes to confine the ankles and wrists between two planks. back
monument TOWN * An assemblage of public and private buildings, larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government. back

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