The Devizes County House of Corrections or Devizes Prison was a correctional facility in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. It opened in 1817, replacing the Old Bridewell prison, and fell out of use after around a hundred years. For a time it was the only prison in Wiltshire.
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Devizes (/dɪˈvaɪzɪz/) is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle, and received...
Brownston House (or Brownstone House) is a Grade I listed building on New Park Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, dating from the beginning of the 18th...
prison projects: the rebuilding ofDevizes New Bridewell and the Fisherton Anger HouseofCorrection in Salisbury. The Devizes New Bridewell was started in...
the county gaol and houseofcorrection were situated; summer assizes were held at Abingdon, which was the site of the county bridewell. Knights of the...
established as a houseofcorrection in 1625 to comply with the 1610 Bridewell Act of King James I requiring that every county have such a house. The building...
Partners make Shredded Wheat and Shreddies at Staverton, near Trowbridge. In Devizes is the Wadworth Brewery. Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury attracts many...
Journals of the Houseof Commons. Vol. 40. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1803. pp. 5–451 – via Google Books. Chronological Table of and Index...
Society Magazine, Devizes, vol. 11, p. 192 & vol. 24, p. 217 Wotton's English Baronetage, vol. 3, p. 217 (for the legend of the migration of the Ernle family...
in 1191. Richard ofDevizes had a source who journeyed as far as Sicily. Ralph de Diceto had a chaplain on the expedition. Ralph of Coggeshall names his...
ofDevizes. Richard ofDevizes (fl. 1190) was an English chronicler and monk who wrote Chronicon de rebus gestis Ricardi Primi covering the reign of Richard...
Foreman, Scottish Power. Barbara Marion Glendinning. For services to the Devizes Women's Royal Voluntary Service. Lettice Ursula Godfrey. For services to...
Centre, University of Leeds. For services to Higher Education. Douglas Harold Michael Western. For services to the community in Devizes, Wiltshire. Richard...
General Secretary, Association of Art Institutions. Miss Helen Elizabeth Awdry. For services to the Orthopaedic Clinic, Devizes. Eric Ball, Area Manager, Huston...
Nethercote Cleland. For services to the Women's Royal Voluntary Service. (Devizes, Wiltshire) Peter John Connor. Divisional manager, Financial Accounting...
Google Books. Journal of the Houseof Commons. Vol. 75. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 3–104. Chronological Table of and Index to the Statutes...
Boyack (Retd.), A.F.C. For services to the Royal Air Forces Association in Devizes and the Royal British Legion, and the community in Potterne, Wiltshire...
Ferris. For services to the elderly in Devizes. Alexander Ferry, Assistant General Secretary, Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. Jack...