: Several have been converted into private apartments, such as the former Cardigan Union workhouse at St Dogmaels. Others serve as museums, schools, youth hostels, or offices.

: Relief was generally restricted to those willing to enter the institution and follow its strict regime.

: Some areas did not provide a workhouse until the 1870s. Rhayader in Radnorshire was the final area in all of England and Wales to establish one. Architecture and Administration

: Historical records for these institutions are generally held in local archives, though Peter Higginbotham's The Workhouse website provides an extensive online database. Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders - Amazon.com

: Larger workhouses developed into complex sites with dedicated vagrants' wards, infirmaries for the sick, and isolation blocks for disease control. Legacy and Surviving Buildings

: Many new buildings followed a radial hub-and-spoke design (forming a ‘Y’ or ‘+’ shape) to allow better supervision of inmates.