Cove Group has been trying to buy the prison since 2014 Shepton Mallet Prison is set to remain open to the public after Cove Group bought it from the Ministry of Justice. The deal will preserve ...

Shepton Mallet Prison, often dubbed The World's Most Haunted Prison, will offer visitors the chance to spend an evening ghost ...

Pupils from Downside School in Somerset were given the chance to go inside the decommissioned Shepton Mallet Prison as part of Education Behind Bars. Organisers are aiming for the scheme to be ...

DESPITE announcing it would 'close forever' last year, Shepton Mallet Prison's future has been secured in a landmark deal.

This silver amulet was excavated in 1990 from a Roman grave forming part of an early Christian cemetery at Shepton Mallet. The grave dated from the late fourth or early fifth century AD.