Alternative Names Aylesbury Female Prison
Prison Type Convict Prison
Date opened 1890
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Bierton Road Aylesbury
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Buckinghamshire
Formerly a local prison (Aylesbury County gaol and House of Correction, ID 335), Aylesbury Prison was first occupied by male convicts sent to convert the establishment into a prison for female convicts. The work was completed in late 1895, the female prisoners received in November that year from Woking Female Prison (ID 1015), and the male prisoners redistributed among the other convict prisons.
Alternative Names Aylesbury Female Prison
Prison Type Convict Prison
Date opened 1890
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Bierton Road Aylesbury
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.822 Long. -0.7997
County Buckinghamshire
Formerly a local prison (Aylesbury County gaol and House of Correction, ID 335), Aylesbury Prison was first occupied by male convicts sent to convert the establishment into a prison for female convicts. The work was completed in late 1895, the female prisoners received in November that year from Woking Female Prison (ID 1015), and the male prisoners redistributed among the other convict prisons.
Year 1893
Annual Confined - 304
Daily Census - 162
Year 1898
Annual -
Daily Daily average - 135
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: AR 47/92
Collection: None
Description: Aylesbury Gaol, warrants and returns etc
Dates: 1861-1912
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM 7/225
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Warrants constituting and appointing Convict Prisons etc. Aylesbury Prison (males and females)
Dates: 1890-1905
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: HMP/A/Box 25
Collection: Aylesbury Gaol
Description: Board of Visitors' minute book, Aylesbury Female Convict Prison
Dates: 1899-1910
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: HMP/A/Box 26
Collection: Aylesbury Gaol
Description: Visiting Director's journal, one or two entries per year (closed for 70 years)
Dates: 1899-1988
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: HMP/A/Box 1
Collection: Aylesbury Gaol
Description: Governor's journal
Dates: 1897-1903
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: D-FR/224/12
Collection: Fremantle manuscripts
Description: Appointments as Visitor of Woman's Prison, Aylesbury
Dates: 1899-1905
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM 7/173
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Prison visitors, Aylesbury Prison, lady visitors. Appointment of Duchess of Bedford, and annual reports
Dates: 1896-1898
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: HMP/A/Box 1
Collection: Aylesbury Gaol
Description: Register of deaths in females prisons, Aylesbury Female Prison
Dates: 1863-1913
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: HMP/A/Box 13
Collection: Aylesbury Gaol
Description: Register of descriptions of inmates
Dates: 1891-1909
