Borstal, Kent
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Borstal is an ancient village near Rochester, once in Kent county, now in the Medway conurbation, England. Its name came from Anglo-Saxon burg-steall = "fort site", likely referring to the hill there.
At Borstal village is Borstal Prison, a large convict prison, founded in 1870.
Borstal Prison was once an experimental juvenile detention centre of the reformatory type set up in 1902. Because it was the first detention centre of its kind in the UK, the word "borstal" became synonymous with other detention centres for youths across the country, and elsewhere.
[edit] External link
- Borstal website, including history (village and prison)
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The unitary authority of Medway in Kent, South East England with its suburbs, villages, towns and parishes: |
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Allhallows • Borstal • Brompton • Chatham • Chattenden • Cliffe • Cliffe and Cliffe Woods • Cliffe Woods • Cooling • Cuxton • Frindsbury • Frindsbury Extra • Frindsbury Intra • Gillingham • Halling • Hempstead • High Halstow • Hoo St Werburgh • Isle of Grain • Lordswood • Lower Rainham • Luton • Park Wood • Rochester • Rainham • Rainham Mark • St Mary Hoo • St Mary's Island • Stoke • Strood • Twydall • Upchurch • Upnor • Wainscott • Walderslade • Wigmore • Wouldham |
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| The unitary authority of Medway List of places in Kent |
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