Want to learn more about Hexham Old Gaol [Dodd Room]
Where you are currently standing!
Hexham Old Gaol is old!
If these walls could talk they could share events from the past 600 years or 219,000 days or 5.2 million hours or 315 million minutes - you get the idea, lots of time!
👉 Touch the wall, feel the history.
It’s actually England’s oldest purpose built jail!
One particularly violent event from Hexham's past happened just around the corner from here, in the Market Square, only 260 years ago.