Principal Primary Sources

• James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.6

• Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.2

• [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.24; The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.5; Fourth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1822), Appendix, p.2; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.6; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.5; Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.2

• Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.22; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.16; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.16; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.16; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.16; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.16; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.15; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.15; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.15; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.17; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.15; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.21; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.11; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.13; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.11; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.10; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.12; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.13; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.14; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.18; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.14; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.13; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.15; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.22; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.20

• Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.2

• Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837 XXXII.1), p.274; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXX.1), p.181; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXI.1), p.85; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.1), p.45; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, IV.1), p.37; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XX.1), p.41; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIII.1), p.77; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.1), p.62; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.69), p.15; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.153), p.10; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.5), p.10; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.1), p.10; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.19; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.16; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.203), p.19

Secondary Sources

• C.W. Chalklin, 'Prison Building by the County of Berks, 1766-1820', Berks Archaeological Journal, vol 69, pp.61-71; http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/system/files/sites/default/files/County%20Police%20Station%20long%20pdf_0.pdf; http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/history/buildings/old-gaol; Manfred Brod, 'County versus Town: the Abingdon Gaol and the campaign for its closure c.1840-1868', Berkshire Old and New, 33 (2016), pp. 14-25