The aim of this dataset is to investigate the time spent in a workhouse by inmates. Poor law. Workhouse admissions and discharges; date admitted; date discharged; length of time spent in workhouse. Inmate name; age; parish responsible for pauper; occupation; illegitimacy; marital status; able bodied or disabled; financial support from a charity; reason for entering workhouse; cleanliness; religion; person responsible for admitting or discharging pauper (board of guardians, overseers of the poor, relieving officer, master); date of entry in register; pauper classification; behaviour whilst in workhouse; other information.