The Lock-Up or Round House

Photo of the quarry face and Lock-Up in 1975 - given by Pam Reay.

This building was a temporary prison built in 1834 in the corner of the parish stone pit, where bull-baiting continued after its suppression elsewhere. It was built of stones out of the parish pit. The date 1834 is quite certain as there are details about it in the minute book of the Vestry, as the body which then ruled the parish was called. The Lock-up was only used as such for six years. See record 680 for more detail. See record 680 for more detail.

The Parish Pit was a major limestone quarry, providing some high quality stone for many Wheatley buildings and for the building of Windsor Castle, Wallingford Castle, Merton and Magdalen Colleges. It is now a recreation ground, but if you go left to the row of trees, you will see the original depth of the quarry, and the cliff-face created.

• Church Road, Recreation Ground, Quarry and Lock-up

• Stone Pit and Lock-Up
• The Quarry
• The Lock-up
• The Lock-up
• The Lock-up Survey 2001
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• Quarry face
• Quarry face
• Wheatley Quarry
• Recreation Ground
• Booklet of eight views of Wheatley c.1950
• The Hinton Collection of early postcards of Wheatley - 1913-1915
• Postcard
• Recreation Ground
• Aerial view taken in 2000
• Bernard Hickey painting
• Assorted press cuttings from 1980 to 1982

• A 689