Information for record number MWA7549:
Site of Stocks at Henley in Arden

Summary The site of the village stocks at Henley in Arden, in which the hands and/or feet of the offender would have been locked as a punishment. The stocks date back to at least the Imperial period, and were located near the Market Cross.
What Is It?  
Type: Stocks, Punishment Place
Period: Imperial - Industrial (1751 AD - 1913 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Henley in Arden
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 15 66
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 Minor reference to stocks at Henley-in-Arden to the effect that they stood in the vicinity of the Market Cross.
2 The stocks are no longer in existence, and the exact site was not ascertained.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Bibliographic reference
Author/originator: Seaman B H
Date: 1968
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Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Henley-in-Arden
Author/originator: Cooper W
Date: 1946
Page Number: 73
Volume/Sheet:
   
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Glossary

 
Word or Phrase
Description  
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 MARKET CROSS * A cross found in a market place. back
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 SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. 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 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

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