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Revision as of 20:17, 31 January 2007
Clerkenwell Bridewell was a prison located in the Clerkenwell area of central London between c.1615 and 1794, when it was superseded by the nearby Coldbath Fields Prison. It was named 'Bridewell' after the Bridewell Palace, which during the 16th century had become one of the City of London's most important prisons.
Next-door was another prison, the New Prison, built in around 1617. Today, the site of the New Prison and the Clerkenwell Bridewell is occupied by the former Hugh Myddleton School (1893-c.1960), in Bowling Green Lane.