Shepton Mallet Prison 1610 – Somerset
In the 17th and 18th centuries men, women, and children were kept in horrendous conditions, starving in packed, smallpox-infested cells. Former inmates lie in unmarked graves throughout the grounds, and many executions have taken place here. When questioned of the brutality of the prison, former prison guards responded with “If the walls could speak… and they often do.”
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