Separate legacies amounting to at least £454 and £478 were used to buy and fit out a parish workhouse in 1729.

A parliamentary report of 1777 listed Kidderminster Borough as having a parish workhouse accommodating up to 70 inmates.

Tarrant would go home, a cripple, and most likely end in the parish workhouse.

A parliamentary report of 1777 listed Bewdley as having a parish workhouse accommodating up to 80 inmates.

Opposite the school was the parish workhouse, where the poor and infirm slept three or more to a bed.

The vestry met in the church until 1829 and then at the parish workhouse.

A parliamentary report of 1776 listed the parish workhouse at Howden as being able to accommodate up to 20 inmates.

He died in the parish workhouse in April 1770.

He went into the room, which was like some kind of dormitory in a parish workhouse, only twice as wide and five times as long.

Later the building became the parish workhouse before going back into use as a school until 1959.