Workhouse

·noun A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.

II. Workhouse ·noun A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.

III. Workhouse ·noun A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.

The Workhouse
See London Workhouse. ...

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(St.) Bride's Workhouse
On the east side of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Lockie, 1810). Not named in the maps. ...

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London Workhouse
On the west side of Bishopsgate Street (Strype, 1720-Elmes, 1831). "Crown Yard" in O. and M. 1677. ...

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London Workhouse Yard
In Bishopsgate Street, leading to the London Workhouse (Dodsley, 1761). ...

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