Workhouse, now hospital, High Street, Purton, North Wiltshire

This workhouse, built for Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Union in 1837, was a modest, low-cost building based on one of several off the peg 'models' of workhouse provided by the central Poor Law Authority.

Location

Wiltshire Purton

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

Themes

Tags

poor relief law poverty welfare workhouse institution