HM Prison Bronzefield

HMP Bronzefield is an adult and young offender female prison located on the outskirts of Ashford in Surrey, England. Bronzefield is the only purpose-built private prison solely for women in the UK, and is the largest female prison in Europe.

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Type: Prison
Description: Category A adult and young offender female’s prison
Also known as: “Ashford Residential School”, “Bronzefield Prison”, “HM Bronzefield”, and “HMP Bronzefield”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Borough of Spelthorne and Christ Church.

Borough of Spelthorne

Town hall

Spelthorne is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England, though historically belonging to Middlesex. Its council is based in Staines-upon-Thames; other settlements in the area include Ashford, Sunbury-on-Thames, Shepperton, Stanwell and Laleham. Borough of Spelthorne is situated 3,700 feet west of HM Prison Bronzefield.

Christ Church

Church

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Christ Church is situated 2,100 feet southwest of HM Prison Bronzefield.

Ashford railway station

Railway station

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Ashford railway station serves the town of Ashford, Surrey, in the borough of Spelthorne in South East England. It is 17 miles 40 chains down the line from London Waterloo. Ashford railway station is situated 3,700 feet east of HM Prison Bronzefield.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ashford and Staines-upon-Thames.

Ashford

Town

Photo: Manfred Heyde, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ashford is a town in the Borough of Spelthorne in Surrey, England, which lies 14 mi west of central London. Its name derives from a crossing point of the River Ash, a distributary of the River Colne.

Staines-upon-Thames

Town

Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Staines-upon-Thames, commonly known simply as Staines, is a market town in northwest Surrey, England, around 17 miles west of central London. It is in the Borough of Spelthorne, at the confluence of the River Thames and Colne.

Stanwell

Village

Photo: Maxwell Hamilton, CC BY 2.0.

Stanwell is a village in the Spelthorne district, in Surrey, England. It is 16 miles west of central London. A small corner of its land is used as industrial land for nearby Heathrow Airport.

HM Prison Bronzefield

Categories: prison for women, His Majesty’s Young Offender Institution, and government building
Location: Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.4331° or 51° 25′ 59″ north

Longitude

-0.48343° or 0° 29′ 0″ west

Elevation

46 feet (14 metres)

Open location code

9C3XCGM8+6J

OpenStreetMap ID

way 162858597

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=prison

GeoNames ID

7522025

Wikidata ID

Q5635143

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In Other Languages

“HM Prison Bronzefield” goes by many names.

Hebrew: “בית הסוהר ברונזפילד”

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