If you’re looking for a day out with a difference, you’re in the right place. Explore the whole prison at your leisure and take ‘CELLfies’ as you soak up the atmosphere of Shrewsbury’s Victorian jail.

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You will be given a visitor guide and map as you explore around the prison; use the sound boxes to learn the facts and history of the prison. The information boards add a fascinating background detail to your visit with staff always available to point you in the right direction and answer any questions you may have.

There is so much to explore including:

– Reception: Where prisoners are processed,
– 2 prison wings: Consisting of nearly 200 cells
– Healthcare: See where medical needs of prisoners were met.

Make your way to visits – the only place within the prison walls where prisoners can meet with people from outside and walk through two exercise yards where prisoners could go for daily exercise and fresh air.

Next, onto segregation – where prisoners would be isolated from the rest of the prison population and into the executioner’s bedroom – see where Albert Pierrepoint would have slept the night before. And finally, the condemned man’s cell, where he would have spent his last days before being hanged next to the execution room – one of the darkest places within the prison due to its previous usage.

Finish your trip with a visit to our museum and gift shop, where you can pick up a huge range of Shrewsbury Prison memorabilia, so you never forget your time behind bars.

Shrewsbury Prison has a wonderful restaurant on site, open all day every day. Why not break up your tour by sampling some of our homemade cakes and fresh coffee, or indulge in a full meal, from snacks and bites to a full sized ‘Lifers Burger’?

A peep behind the walls of a real Victorian prison
Learn prison history from the Georgian era to modern day
A vast indoor and outdoor venue, suitable for all ages

Includes:
Explore a real Victorian prison at your leisure
Cellfie’ points throughout the site including pillories and height board mugshot opportunities
Access to our onsite restaurant
Access to our museum, featuring artefacts found within the prison walls from before the jail was decommissioned

 

 

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