Basingstoke Gaol

Overview

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1816

Date closed   {1837}

Location   unknown   Basingstoke

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Hampshire

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1816

Date closed   {1837}

Location   unknown   Basingstoke

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.263685  Long.   -1.0984496

County   Hampshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   3

Daily Greatest number   -   2

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   48

Daily Greatest number   -   6

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.18
  • 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.36; 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.16
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.8
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.1102
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.177), p.59

Additional Primary Sources

  • Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), pp. 36-37;

Management

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 148M71/2/9/1

Collection: Basingstoke Borough

Description: Order of the Quarter Sessions held at Winchester relating to the confinement of prisoners

Dates: 1825


Finance

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 148M71/1/5/57

Collection: Basingstoke Borough

Description: Basingstoke administrative documents. Includes list of expenses of building and repairing the town gaol since 1800.

Dates: 1831


Staff

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 148M71/2/9/6

Collection: Basingstoke Borough

Description: Letter to the Mayor and Corporation from John Pearce, states that since he has been appointed Relieving Officer for the District he will have to resign from his position as Gaoler 

Dates: 1835