Site of an Asylum near Asylum Farm, Stretton on Dunsmore

Hill Farm (former Warwick County Asylum) Stretton on Dunsmore.

Image courtesy of Anne Langley

Description of this historic site

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.

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Notes about this historic site

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.