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Clerkenwell Bridewell was a prison located in the Clerkenwell area immediately north of the City of London (in the modern London Borough of Islington) between c.1615 and 1794 when it was superseded by the nearby Coldbath Fields Prison in Mount Pleasant. It was named ‘Bridewell’ after the Bridewell Palace which during the 16th century had become one of the City of London’s most important prisons. Next-door was another prison the New Prison built in around 1617.