1 Atherstone stocks are in the RDC depot at Sheepey Road. They were moved there when the Hall was used by the Fire Brigade in the last war.
A pillory or stocks, a wooden frame containing holes through which criminals would put their hands and feet as a punishment. The stocks date to the Post Medieval period. They are now situated in the RDC Centre in Sheepy Road, Atherstone.
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. ...
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.
1 Stocks located at the Saxon Mill, in close proximity to the main wheel. The stocks have a plaque which says, ‘These original public punishment stocks were removed and restored ...
Wooden stocks dating to the Post Medieval period, in which an offender's wrist's and/or ankles were locked as a punishment. The original site of these stocks is unclear. They were restored in 1957 and are now at The Saxon Mill public house just north of Warwick.
1 Stocks marked.
2 Two side members still exist, restored in 1977, with a metal strap reinforcing them. Condition on site visit was ‘as restored’, very good. Stocks stand on a ...
Village stocks, in which offender's wrists and/or ankles were clamped as a punishment. The stocks were in use from the Post Medieval to the Imperial period. The stocks have been restored, and are located in a field to the west of the Infant and Junior School.
1 Old village stocks.
2 The site is enclosed by iron railings. Only one small wooden stump remains. A local farmer recalls that the stocks were vandalised ...
Village stocks, in which an offender's wrists and/or ankles were held as a punishment. The stocks probably date to the Post Medieval period, and the remaining wooden stump is located 50m southwest of St John the Baptist's Church.