Alternative Names Appleby County Gaol, Appleby House of Correction
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1770
Date closed 1878
Location east side of the Eden Appleby
Map location in the vicinity
County Westmorland
A new House of Correction built on the same site and regarded as the same institution at some point between 1818 and 1824.
Alternative Names Appleby County Gaol, Appleby House of Correction
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1770
Date closed 1878
Location east side of the Eden Appleby
Map location in the vicinity
Lat. 54.574194 Long. -2.4965191
County Westmorland
A new House of Correction built on the same site and regarded as the same institution at some point between 1818 and 1824.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 32
Daily Greatest number - 25
Year 1824
Annual Committed - 15
Daily Census - 10
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 38
Daily Census - 14
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 65
Daily Census - 18
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 86
Daily Census - 8
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 72
Daily Census - 19
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 92
Daily Daily average - 13
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 72
Daily Daily average - 15
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 58
Daily Daily average - 7
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 47
Daily Greatest number - 14
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 98
Daily Daily average - 11
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 115
Daily Daily average - 11
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 2
Daily Daily average - 0
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WQ/SR/564-675
Collection: Westmorland Quarter Sessions
Description: Sessions rolls. Material includes bills and accounts, orders regarding the prison and prisoners, accounts of prisoners' monies etc. Catalogued in detail for the period 1800-1816
Dates: 1800-1900
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WQ/A/9
Collection: Westmorland Quarter Sessions
Description: Appleby Gaol cash book
Dates: 1821-1832
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WQ/F/6
Collection: Westmorland Quarter Sessions
Description: Gaols' account book
Dates: 1874-1888
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WQ/SR/567/8
Collection: Westmorland Quarter Sessions
Description: List of Coroners, Keepers of Gaols and Houses of Correction, High Constables and Bailiffs of Liberties
Dates: 1800
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: PROB/1850/W350
Collection: Diocese of Carlisle probate
Description: Will of Thomas Thwaites, Governor of County Gaol, of Appleby
Dates: 1850
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WDHOTH/3/38/6
Collection: Heelis and Heelis, Solicitors, Appleby
Description: Bonds for the execution of the office of Bailiff, and appointment of Gaoler
Dates: 1792-1849
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WQ/SR/597/4
Collection: Westmorland Quarter Sessions
Description: List of debtors in the County Gaol
Dates: 1804
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: DLONS/L/1/3/116
Collection: Lowther Family
Description: Petition from prisoners in Appleby Gaol
Dates: 1813
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: DLONS/L/1/3/217, 237, 247
Collection: Lowther Family
Description: Letter/s from prisoner/s in Carlisle/Appleby Gaols
Dates: 1817, 1818
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WDX 20
Collection: None
Description: Westmorland Assizes at Appleby and Appleby Prison
Dates: 1826
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WQ/SR/579/15-16
Collection: Westmorland Quarter Sessions
Description: Certificate of prisoners tried and acquitted at the Assizes and Gaol delivery at Appleby
Dates: 1800
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WQ/SR/633/22
Collection: Westmorland Quarter Sessions
Description: Petition of John Roberts, prisoner in Appleby Gaol, under sentence of transportation and confined for nearly two years
Dates: 1809
Archive name: Carlisle Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: DLONS/L/5/3/1/1
Collection: Lowther Family
Description: Papers, Appleby. Includes plans of new Gaol.
Dates: Undated
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WQ/A/10-11
Collection: Westmorland Quarter Sessions
Description: Ground and upper floor plan of County Gaol at Appleby, with proposed additions by Francis Webster
Dates: c.1813
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WQ/A/12
Collection: Westmorland Quarter Sessions
Description: Ground plan of Gaol, Court houses and House of Correction at Appleby showing intended alterations
Dates: 1824
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WQ/A/13
Collection: Westmorland Quarter Sessions
Description: Ground plan of Gaol and Court house at Appleby by Joseph Bintley, County Surveyor, Kendal
Dates: 1873
Archive name: Kendal Archive Centre
Catalogue ref: WS/Hoth/ex Box 39
Collection: None
Description: 3 plans of the old and new Gaol
Dates: Undated