22 February 2013

Long Lartin

This is the name of a prison in Worcestershire, UK opened in 1971. The ngram
suggests that rather than the name being taken from an existing geographical
place, it was invented for the prison. The peak just after 1995 may reflect
upgrading as a result of the Woodcock/Learmont reports.

More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Long_Lartin

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Long+Lartin&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=

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