Fred West is most closely associated with 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, England, where he lived with his wife Rosemary and where many of their crimes took place.

Main places he lived

  • Childhood and early life : Fred West was born near Much Marcle, Herefordshire, and as a child lived at Moorcourt Cottage on the outskirts of Much Marcle, where his father worked on Moorcourt Farm.
  • Early adulthood in Scotland : As a young man he lived in Scotland for a period, including in Coatbridge and later Savoy Street in the Bridgeton district of Glasgow, while working various jobs such as an ice‑cream van driver.

Gloucester and Cromwell Street

  • Move to Gloucester : West later settled in Gloucester, in the west of England, where he and Rosemary West began renting then bought the three‑storey house at 25 Cromwell Street.
  • “House of Horrors” : This address became infamous as the couple’s home and the primary site of many of the murders, and it has often been described in media as a “House of Horrors.”

Later life and custody

  • Arrest and imprisonment : After his arrest, Fred West was held in prison in Birmingham (Winson Green Prison), where he died in 1995, but his most notorious place of residence remains 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester.

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