Examples
An excellent example of stocks can be seen in Dromore, County Down, in Northern Ireland. They are occasionally preserved in churches though as wooden devices they are naturally subject to rotting and decay.
Locations of examples in England and Wales include:
- Abinger, Surrey
- Aldbury, Hertfordshire
- Apethorpe, Northamptonshire
- Axbridge, Somerset
- Bingley, West Yorkshire
- Canewdon, Essex
- Chapel en le Frith
- Chapeltown, Lancashire
- Dunchurch, Warwickshire
- Fownhope, Herefordshire
- Elland, West Yorkshire
- Grappenhall, Cheshire
- Honley, West Yorkshire
- Irby, Wirral
- Keevil, Wiltshire
- Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire
- Kings Sutton, Oxfordshire
- Lymm, Cheshire
- Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside
- Nottingham
- Prestbury, Cheshire
- Rivington, Lancashire
- Seamer, North Yorkshire
- Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire
- Thurlaston, Warwickshire
- Waterfall, Staffordshire
- York, North Yorkshire
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