Great Darkgate Street Prison, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK - Retired Prisons on Waymarking.com

The Great Darkgate prison and police station stood on this site prior to 1975, the prison pre-dated that to the 1880's.
The original great dark gate, after which the street this prison stands on was built in around the 13c during Edward the long-shanks campaign of castle building. The town originally stood as a walled city, none of the wall now stands, but the castle stands as a ruin.
No notable prisoners are known as it stood only until the 1880's.

The present church stands near the castle ruins; and is a plain, quasi-cruciform edifice, built in 1830, at a cost of nearly £4,000. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Calvinistic-Methodists, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics. The court-house, built in 1860, is a handsome edifice with a tetrastyle Ionic portico. The assembly-rooms, built in 1820, have Grecian features, and contain a ball-room 45 feet by 20, card, billiard, and reading rooms. Other public buildings are the grammar school, the market houses, the infirmary, the poor-house, and the prison.
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Address: Great Darkgate Street Aberystwyth, Ceredigion Wales Open to the public: Yes Hours: Open access Fees?: Free Web link: Not listed

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