Oxford Castle Prison
Norman castle and former county gaol with a Saxon tower, crypt and Georgian prison cells.
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This guide to Oxford Castle Prison in Oxford follows Mary Blandy, a young woman from Henley, and her courtship with Captain William Henry Cranstoun, the son of a Scottish nobleman, in the seventeen forties. It moves from a secret marriage in Scotland to the county gaol where she was held in irons, and the jailers who kept her in the condemned cell. Best heard in the castle yard, looking up at the old Saxon tower.
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