Bullingdon

Bullingdon may refer to:

Bullingdon Hundred

Coordinates: 51°24′18″N 1°09′54″W / 51.4051°N 1.1651°W / 51.4051; -1.1651

Bullingdon is an ancient hundred in the south-east of the county of Oxfordshire.

The hundred used to include villages such as Cuddesdon, Garsington, the Baldons and Milton. However, the hundred was changed by the nineteenth century to conform more regularly with council wards and today it covers the area of several ancient hundreds, occupying most of south-central Oxon.

The primary use of the hundred area today is for census data. Beyond this, the distinction bears little contemporary importance and is little-known popularly. However the name lives on in the form of HM Prison Bullingdon, a Category B/C prison located in the village of Arncott in Oxfordshire. The name of Bullingdon Green, meeting place of the original hundred, also survives on Ordnance Survey larger-scale maps, just north of the modern Horspath Sports Ground.

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HM Prison Bullingdon

HMP Bullingdon is a Category B/C men's prison, in the village of Arncott (near Bicester) in Oxfordshire, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Bullingdon Prison is named after Bullingdon, the ancient hundred in Oxfordshire.

History

Opened in 1994, Bullingdon was constructed as a ‘new gallery' design prison, with its four main houseblocks divided into three-galleried units. A fifth houseblock was added in 1998 which is a two-galleried unit, and a sixth added in 2008, another two-galleried unit. The prison was highlighted as being dangerously overcrowded in 2002 by Colin Moses (chairman of the Prison Officers Association) in a speech to the TUC conference. A year later Bullingdon was embroiled in further controversy when Deputy Governor Terence McLaren was arrested for possession of cocaine and child pornography offences. A prisoner escaped from Bullingdon a month later. The prison was again highlighted as the most overcrowded in England in 2004. In 2006 Governor Phil Taylor was criticised after he banned the display of the England flag by Prison Officers for fear of upsetting foreign inmates.