Aylsham Bridewell

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Records

Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1543

Date closed   1825

Location   Burgh Road, near Market Place   Aylsham

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Norfolk

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1543

Date closed   1825

Location   Burgh Road, near Market Place   Aylsham

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.794746  Long.   1.2518135

County   Norfolk

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   134

Daily Greatest number   -   24

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   151

Daily Census   -   22

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.20
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.34
  • [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.20; 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.81; 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.99; 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.112
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.168; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.188; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.182

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF12218-Post-medieval-bridewell-Aylsham&Index=11483&RecordCount=56734&SessionID=4dfb7262-a73f-48f0-b29a-3c86847b8d65; http://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC098527

Management

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MC 3/358, 477 x

Collection: Lothian of Blickling (additional) 

Description: Report of the Justices appointed to be Visitors of the House of Correction at Aylsham

Dates: 1829


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/4

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Report on the state and condition of the House of Correction at Aylsham

Dates: 1819


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: GTN 5/9/50

Collection: Harbord papers

Description: Correspondence. Including on treadmill at Aylsham (opinions, diagrams etc)

Dates: 1821-1823


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: AYL 974-975

Collection: The Aylsham papers

Description: Papers relating to local government, Poor Law, utilities etc. Aylsham Bridewell and Bridewell Orchard.

Dates: 1822-1930


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/S 4/4

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Includes resolution of Quarter Sessions re closure of Aylesham Bridewell (1825)

Dates: 1824-1827


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/S 4

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Sessions minute books of administrative business, including reports of Visiting Justices, Keepers and Surgeons of County Gaol and the various Bridewells

Dates: 1799-1968


Prisoners

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 8/1

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Aylsham Bridewell, Register of prisoners

Dates: 1801-1825


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: AYL 1073/1-23

Collection: The Aylsham papers

Description: Papers about the purchase of the Bridewell estate, Aylsham, by Gay, Copeman, Repton, Parmeter, Wickes, Soame and Warnes

Dates: 1825-1829


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: AYL 1156

Collection: The Aylsham papers

Description: Plan of Aylsham Bridewell

Dates: 1825