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About The Workhouse
The Workhouse is a museum (History museums) in Upton CP. The address is Caudwell House, Upton Rd, NG25 0PT Upton CP. Up-to-date information is available on its own website, and you can reach it by phone at +441636817260. Just around the corner: Station House (hotel, 528 m).
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- Museum › History museums
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- Address
- Caudwell House, Upton Rd
NG25 0PT Upton CP, United Kingdom - Phone
- +441636817260
- Website
- www.nationaltrust.org.uk
- theworkhouse@nationaltrust.org.uk
- Coordinates
- 53.08106° N · -0.93923° E
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- Identifier
- ID 35bf57d2-aff…
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Early poverty relief was organised by parish churches, but this was overwhelmed by the 1820s economic slump. Relief was then industrialised by the creation of workhouses - you could serve gruel into 160 small bowls more efficiently than a score of parishes each supplying a handful. But you must ensure that the place is as miserable as possible, to deter all but the most desperate. Southwell's gaunt Workhouse was built in 1824 and was a prototype for those that sprang up all over Britain and Ireland, and is the best preserved. The infirmary was added in the 1870s. The complex later became an asylum and refuge for victims of domestic abuse. It's now run by the National Trust.
Source: Wikivoyage, „Newark-on-Trent“ · authors per page history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · as of 5/29/2022