We believe that the whipping post was erected at the same time as the police station but, by then, it would just be for show as public whipping had been abolished.

The post can lay claim to being one of the smallest listed buildings, all that remains of the original post are the iron shackles.

It has its own information board so, as you walk down the hill, you can learn more.

Continue down Spa Hill. On the left you will see part of the old prison visible beyond the houses. This is where we are going next.

On the way you will see that some of the houses have stone walls as their boundary. These are the remains of the walls which bounded the prison fields and would originally have been much higher.

Turn into Church Street and then up Queen Street to The Priory.