Stocks in Market Place, Dunchurch
Description of this historic site
Dunchurch village stocks, a wooden structure in which the feet and/or hands of criminals would have been locked as a punishment. The stocks were used during the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. They were situated in Market Place, Dunchurch.
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Notes about this historic site
1 In front of the Dun Cow Hotel the stocks are still in existence, last used in 1866.
2 The stocks are completely restored.
3 Date indeterminate, but possibly 18th century. Timber. Two pairs of holes.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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