THE VILLAGE CELLS

The Village Cells are situated under the Old School Building at the bottom of Old Lane.

The School was built in 1825 and presumably this was when the cells were incorporated into the structure.
There are three doors, one has Warley carved into the Lintel, one Midgley. The third is not carved.

The boundary between the Ancient Townships of Warley and Midgley is the Luddenden Beck just a few yards from the cells and for centuries the village of Luddenden was a small collection of buildings:
Warley Soke Mill;
St Mary's Chapel;
a handful of houses
and a Wooden bridge where the old Pack Horse Trail between Burnley and Halifax crossed the beck.

Any miscreants in the village would have been allocated one of these cold and damp cells depending on which side of the river they inhabited, either from Warley or from Midgley before they could be seen by the local magistrate. The third cell was presumably for miscreants from further afield.