fellows of the town." Some lock-ups also had stocks, ducking stools, pillories, or pinfolds alongside them and the origins of the 18th-century village lock-up evolved from much earlier examples of holding cells and devices. The Oxford English Dictionary refers to a round-house as a place of detention for arrested persons and dates its first written usage to 1589. Decline and later uses The rooms fell out of use when the County Police Act was introduced in 1839 and more stations were built with their own holding facilities. The Act allowed Justices of the Peace to set up a paid police force in each county and made it compulsory for that force to be provided with proper police stations and secure cells. The village lock-up became a redundant edifice as a result and only a small fraction have survived. During World War II many were used by the Home Guard as sentry posts and arms stores. In recent decades many owners have repaired these structures and/or seen nomination as listed buildings; a presumption of acceptance applies to buildings earlier than 1840. Some are local heritage attractions; others are in a ruinous state; others have been converted into parts of homes, yards or gardens. A register of these structures, including those which have been lost, is held by the Village Lock-up Association. Notable village lock-ups The crest of Everton Football Club features Everton Lock-Up which still stands on Everton Brow, Liverpool. D. H. Lawrence and his German-born wife Frieda had to report to the lock-up in Wirksworth during the First World War when they lived at Middleton-by-Wirksworth. The roof of Castle Cary lock-up is reputed to have inspired the design of the modern British police helmet. In 1281 an analogous building (the Tun) was erected in Cornhill, central London – a two-storey barrel shaped design with a single cell on each floor. Surviving lock-ups in England and Wales England Bedfordshire Barton-le-Clay, Clophill, Harrold, Silsoe Berkshire Aldermaston, Pangbourne Bristol (City of) Westbury-on-Trym Buckinghamshire Amersham, Great Missenden, Wendover, West Wycombe Cambridgeshire Broughton, Burwell, Coveney, Eaton Socon, Fen Drayton, Fenstanton, Litlington, (Holywell-cum-)Needingworth, Parson Drove, Sawtry Cheshire Farndon, Farnworth, Kelsall, Winsford Cumbria Lower Allithwaite Derbyshire Alfreton, Ashbourne?, Curbar, Cromford (Derwent Valley Mills), Sandiacre, Smisby, Swarkestone (ruin), Ticknall, Wirksworth Dorset Gillingham, Lyme Regis, Swanage Durham Barnard Castle, Staindrop East Sussex Pevensey Essex Bradwell on Sea, Braintree, Canewdon, Great Bardfield, Great Dunmow, Orsett, Steeple Bumpstead, Thaxted (in Guildhall),