11/01/2015: The cache has been moved from its original location, but only by about 5m. The coordinates have been updated on the multiple choice question page, and the hint has been updated below.
Back to school! The Knaphill History Lessons are a series of fairly easy caches intended to test your local knowledge ... and maybe more. There's no real puzzle solving involved - all of the required information can be found easily online. See the Bookmark List for other caches in the series.
Work began on the Woking Invalid Convict Prison in Knaphill in 1858 - the first prison to be built specifically for disabled prisoners. The north-east wing was opened on the 28th April 1859, although the official opening of the whole site was not until the following year when three hundred prisoners were transferred from Lewes Prison in Sussex.
In 1867 work began on a second prison in Knaphill, this time for female convicts, with able-bodied men from the male prison employed as cheap labour. The new prison opened on the 5th May 1869 when one hundred prisoners were transferred from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight.
The invalid prison finally closed on the 21st March 1889; the site was then transferred to the War Department and converted into Inkerman Barracks. The female prison was closed in October 1895, but was used as a military hospital during the First World War. Both prison buildings were finally demolished in the 1970s.
The attached plan shows the two prisons as well as the prison officers' quarters. The houses on the left hand side of Raglan Road (running diagonally between the main prison buildings) and Wellington Terrace on Victoria Road are all that remains today.
To find the cache you will need to answer the following questions - here.
The cache is hidden along Robin Hood Road - do not try to approach from Lockfield Drive.
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