Poverty, the poor law and the workhouse by Professor John Beckett

Cartographic

Worksop Union Workhouse as shown on the 25" to one mile Ordnance Survey map of 1914.
Worksop Union Workhouse as shown on the 25" to one mile Ordnance Survey map of 1914.

Plan of Nottingham Union Workhouse as depicted on Salmon's map of Nottingham, 1861.
Plan of the Nottingham Union Workhouse built in 1840 as depicted on Salmon's map of Nottingham, 1861.

Ordnance Survey

Large scale Ordnance Survey maps from the late 19th and early 20th centuries show workhouses and their environment in great detail:

Consult copies at Local Studies Libraries and Nottinghamshire Archives.

The British History Online website hosts a complete set of 6” maps for the county with the advantage that the original sheet numbers are used: helpful if you need to request the maps at a local studies library or Nottinghamshire Archives:

Other large scale nineteenth century maps exist: in particular Edward Salmon's Plan of the Town of Nottingham and its Environs, published in 1861. A reprint is available from Nottingham Civic Society.

Workhouse plans

Nottinghamshire Archives holds plans of the following workhouses: