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Prison Entry offers visitors the freedom to explore The World’s Oldest Prison on their own terms. With over four centuries of continuous use, this historic prison reveals how incarceration evolved across generations.
With Prison Entry, there is no set route and no fixed timetable.
You are free to explore the prison as you choose, lingering on landings, stepping inside cells, or moving between wings to understand the scale and structure of the site.
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Shepton Mallet Prison is defined by repetition, order and control.
As you explore, the design of the prison becomes clear, long sightlines, stacked landings and rows of cells built to enforce routine and discipline. Prison Entry gives you the time and space to observe how incarceration functioned day after day within a large operational prison.
This is not a reconstructed environment. It is the real structure in which prison life unfolded.
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Prisons are not places to rush through.
Prison Entry is designed to give visitors the space these environments demand. Conversation happens naturally. Questions emerge as you explore. Understanding builds through movement, observation and shared experience.
This is heritage encountered slowly and remembered long after leaving.
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Your Prison Entry ticket includes:
Prison Entry is designed to give you the freedom to experience the prison in your own way.
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