Definition of Workhouses. Meaning of Workhouses. Synonyms of Workhouses

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Definition of Workhouses

Workhouses
Workhouse Work"house`, n.; pl. Workhouses. [AS. weorch?s.] 1. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop. 2. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor. 3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
Workhouse
Workhouse Work"house`, n.; pl. Workhouses. [AS. weorch?s.] 1. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop. 2. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor. 3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.

Meaning of Workhouses from wikipedia

- provision of relief to anyone who refused to enter a workhouse. Some Poor Law authorities hoped to run workhouses at a profit by utilising the free labour of their...
- second series of the television drama Call the Midwife. Although Britain's workhouses were officially abolished in 1930, many did not close their doors until...
- was built on the site in the early 1950s. Millennium Memories of Whittlesey. Whittlesey Society. "Whittlesey". Workhouses. Retrieved 28 October 2018....
- prompt and careful attendance." Where workhouses had been designed for the indigent, by the late 1840s most workhouses outside London and the larger provincial...
- the 19th-century workhouse, and was cited by the Royal Commission on the poor law as the best example among the existing workhouses, before the resulting...
- country was divided into Poor Law Unions which each had a workhouse. The establishment of workhouses in Poor Law Unions ****ured that only those in the deepest...
- BBC News. 2015-01-19. Retrieved 2021-02-01. "The Workhouse in Clifton, Gloucestershire". www.workhouses.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-02-01. Cork, Tristan (2019-05-10)...
- The Lambeth Workhouse was a workhouse in Lambeth, London. The original workhouse opened in 1726 in Princes Road (later, Black Prince Road). From 1871 to...
- poverty-stricken drastically increased and, like many other workhouses in Ireland at the time, the workhouse experienced severe overcrowding. With the introduction...
- list of workhouses in London. In 1776 there were 86 workhouses in the metropolis plus about 12 pauper farms in Hoxton and Mile End Aldgate workhouse Bethnal...