Appleby County Gaol and House of Correction

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Overview

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

Critical Remarks

A new House of Correction built on the same site and regarded as the same institution at some point between 1818 and 1824.

Prison Info

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

Critical Remarks

A new House of Correction built on the same site and regarded as the same institution at some point between 1818 and 1824.

Prisoner Statistics

 

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

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.12
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.50
  • Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p.114; 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.146; 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.154; 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.45
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.284; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.274; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.252; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.288; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.257; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.256; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.252; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.252; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.278; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.265; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.251; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.170; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.172; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.173; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.170; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.186; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.199; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.202; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.201; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.195; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.232; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.237; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.239; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.245
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.64
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.91; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.96; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.1; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.227), p.112; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.48; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.793), p.77; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.837), p.81; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.265), p.92; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.361), p.83; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854, XXXII.1), p.85; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854-55, XXVI.123), p.64; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.657), p.67; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.209), p.61; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.381), p.41; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.109), p.87; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.257), p.93; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.233), p.102; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.1), p.96; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.1), p.96; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.529), p.144; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.169), p.72; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.337), p.141; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.389), p.174; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.417), p.180; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.417), p.180; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.421), p.180; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Forty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLI.417), p.176

Additional Primary Sources

  • William Parson and William White, History, Directory and Gazetteer of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland (Leeds, 1829), pp. 521, 523; Mannex, History, Topography and Directory of Westmorland (Beverley, 1851), p. 123

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/n-westmorland-records/vol8/pp36-40

Management

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


Finance

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


Staff

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


Prisoners

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


Land & Buildings

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