Berwick Upon Tweed Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Berwick Upon Tweed Town and County Gaol, Berwick Upon Tweed Borough Gaol and House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1754

Date closed   1850

Location   stands over the Grand Town Hall, Marygate   Berwick-Upon-Tweed

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Northumberland

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Berwick Upon Tweed Town and County Gaol, Berwick Upon Tweed Borough Gaol and House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1754

Date closed   1850

Location   stands over the Grand Town Hall, Marygate   Berwick-Upon-Tweed

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   55.7694393  Long.   -2.0033267

County   Northumberland

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   24

Daily Greatest number   -   16

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   150

Daily Census   -   150

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   115

Daily Greatest number   -   33

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   38

Daily Census   -   7

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   95

Daily Census   -   6

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   101

Daily Daily average   -   5

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.39
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.36
  • 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.87; 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.163; 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.178; 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.35
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.88
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.9
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.1447
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.46
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.299), p.112; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.449), p.167; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.413), p.15; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.369), p.33; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.973), p.60; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.399), p.63; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XX.461), p.80; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847, XXIX.381), p.130; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.46; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.793), p.76

Additional Primary Sources

  • Joseph John Gurney, Notes of a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the north of England, in company with Elizabeth Fry: with some general observations on the subject of prison discipline (London, 1819), p. 12

Management

Archive name: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

Catalogue ref: BQS/N/4

Collection: Berwick Quarter Sessions

Description: Home Office instructions to Gaoler re calendar of prisoners tried at Sessions

Dates: 1834-1835


Archive name: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

Catalogue ref: BQS/N/7

Collection: Berwick Quarter Sessions

Description: Letter re visitation of Gaol

Dates: 1831


Prisoners

Archive name: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

Catalogue ref: BQS/N/1

Collection: Berwick Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaolers return of prisoners tried

Dates: 1836-1853


Archive name: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

Catalogue ref: BBA/C/C15/87/1

Collection: Berwick Borough

Description: Precepts to Coroner for Gaol delivery

Dates: 1759-1813


Archive name: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

Catalogue ref: BQS/M/2

Collection: Berwick Quarter Sessions

Description: Return of prisoners in Berwick Gaol under sentence of transportation

Dates: 1846


Archive name: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

Catalogue ref: BQS/N/2

Collection: Berwick Quarter Sessions

Description: Return of persons committed for trial

Dates: 1846-1850


Archive name: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

Catalogue ref: BQS/N/5

Collection: Berwick Quarter Sessions

Description: Petition of A. Thompson for remission

Dates: 1819