Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution

Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution is a prison in Medway, England. Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution is situated nearby to the government office Kent, Surrey & Sussex Prison Group Regional Office, as well as near the prison Oasis Restore Secure School.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Bridgewoods and HM Prison Rochester.

Fort Bridgewoods

Fort

The site of Fort Bridgewoods is on the outskirts of Rochester, Medway in the United Kingdom, next to the Rochester-Maidstone road. The site was acquired by the War Office in about 1860 to form part of a ring of forts protecting the Royal Dockyard at Chatham. Fort Bridgewoods is situated 1,600 feet south of Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution.

HM Prison Rochester

Prison

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HM Prison Rochester is a male Young Offenders Institution, founded in 1874, and located in the Borstal area of Rochester in Kent, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and is located next to HMP Cookham Wood. HM Prison Rochester is situated 1,600 feet north of Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution.

Fort Borstal

Fort

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Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour. Construction started in 1875 but was suspended in 1885. Fort Borstal is situated 2,800 feet northwest of Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Borstal and Medway Gate.

Borstal

Village

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Borstal is a location in the Medway unitary authority of Kent in South East England. Originally a village near Rochester, it has become absorbed by the expansion of that town. The youth prison at Borstal gave its name to the Borstal reform school system.

Medway Gate

Locality

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Medway Gate is a locality, which is situated 1½ miles northwest of Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution.

Rochester

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Rochester is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Chatham and Gillingham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.

Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution

Type: Prison
Also known as: “HMP Cookham Wood”
Category: government building
Location: Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.3635° or 51° 21′ 49″ north

Longitude

0.49427° or 0° 29′ 39″ east

Operator

HM Prison & Probation Service

Open location code

9F329F7V+CP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 92124627

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=prison

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