Stocks and Maypole - The Green, Dunchurch, Warwickshire, UK
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N 52° 20.240 W 001° 17.453
30U E 616443 N 5799933
The village stocks and maypole in Dunchurch village have been preserved on the green.
Waymark Code: WM5HPY
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/10/2009
Views: 9
As an important coaching village on the route from Holyhead to London and Oxford to Leicester, Dunchurch would have been a focal point for travellers. People held in the stocks would have been on public display to a large audience.
The old seat still exists next to the stocks being a two seater where offenders were sat with their ankles and wrists secured in the holes. They were last used in 1866.
The maypole was erected in 1996 as a permanent place for ribbon dancing in early May. It has the traditional red, white and blue spiral design with hooks at the top and a secure concrete foundation.
Type of Historic Marker: Village Stocks and Maypole
Age/Event Date: 01/01/1800
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