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Museum
Represents a museum
WC
No
EventsForChildren
No
HearingLoop
No
IsIncludedThisYear
No
DisabledAccess
No
Activities
Directions: From the centre of Wigtown take Harbour Road and continue downhill. Old Prison House is on the right towards the bottom of the road. Parking on street in Harbour Road or park in town and walk – 5 mins.
OpeningTime1
12.00-16.00
OpeningDate1
30/9/2012
OpeningTime2
12.00-16.00
IsNewThisYear
No
ID
Google Panorama ID
12353
Refreshments
No
Postcode
DG8 9ER
Parking
Yes
DisabledWC
No
LimitedAccess
No
NotAccessible
No
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Old Prison House
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
dumfriesandgalloway
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1113
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Museum
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
current,54.8658,-4.440403;
Description
An account of the resource
<div>Purpose built and opened in 1848, this handsome neo-Tudor building was Wigtown’s prison for 30 years. It was then adapted for use as the town Police Station with a house for the policeman and remained as such until after World War II when it was sold to a local agricultural fertiliser business. It was later sold on again becoming a private residence in the 1950s.</div><div>Four of the original nine cells remain – two of which are on show. They are dark and cold, inhabited now only by spiders. Remnants of graffiti etched into the lime-washed walls bear testimony to previous two legged inmates.</div>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1848