NHER 15886 (Monument record) - Site of an 18th to 19th century workhouse

Site of workhouse.
Marked on First Edition 1 inch to the mile Ordnance Survey map of 1836 (S1)[1].
Information recorded on record card (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 12 March 1980.

Documentary Evidence
Published information indicates that a workhouse was constructed in 1776 "in the angle between Commercial Road (now Bure Way) and New Road," and parliamentary records report that it had up to 80 inmates in 1777 (S3). This is supported by a set of doucments held in the Norfolk Record Office (S4) which includes an extract of a court roll (Manor of Aylsham Wood) (1730-1784) regarding a cottage in Millgate Street conveyed in trust for the poor of Aylsham and (Manor of Aylsham on the part of Lancaster) conveyance of two messuages and 2a. land in Millgate Street converted to a workhouse according to a will of 1808. These documents have not been seen in detail, but they confirm that a workhouse was present in Millgate Street. By April 1836, The Aylsham Poor Law Union was formed, representing 46 parishes, and used three workhouses: the existing Aylsham parish workhouse, Buxton workhouse (NHER 7666), and Oulton workhouse (NHER 7417). The Aylsham workhouse was demolished in 1842 (S3), and replaced in 1849 by the Aylsham Union Workhouse (NHER 7416) to the west of the town which could accommodate up to 600 inmates.
H. Hamilton (HES), 27 April 2022.