Police Station, Wimborne Minster, Dorset

Photograph taken October 1984 © Crown copyright.NMR ref: BB92/12865

In 1756 the Chief Magistrate of Westminster, Henry Fielding, set up the first full-time police force. In 1856 the County and Borough Police Act was introduced, which required a police force to be in operation in all districts. This police station dates from about this time.

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Dorset Wimborne Minster

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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The village stocks with four ankle holes for the punishment of petty crime and misdemeanor in the village. Although probably used from the Anglo-Saxon period, a statute of 1351 made it law for every township to provide and maintain a set of stocks.

Police Station, Wimborne Minster, Dorset

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