Description:Gnosall village lock-up, Station Road, built in 1830. Lock-ups, often found in rural communities, were a convenient place to detain vagrants and local drunks.
Only three lock-ups survive in the county, the other two can be found in Stafford and at Alton.
Gnosall lock-up was re-erected by the side of the A518 when plans to widen the road went ahead after a lorry drove into the building in the mid-1960s. Funds to move the building were raised by the Women's Institute. This photograph was taken prior to the move.
On the right are the almshouses, which are little changed today. Modern housing has now replaced the buildings beyond the almshouses, but the houses at the end of the road are still in existence.