Alternative Names Bodmin County Gaol and Bridewell, Bodmin New Prison, Cornwall County Gaol and House of Correction, Bodmin County Gaol, Bodmin Prison, HMP Bodmin
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1779
Date closed post 1900 (1927)
Location Berrycoombe Road Bodmin
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Cornwall
Alternative Names Bodmin County Gaol and Bridewell, Bodmin New Prison, Cornwall County Gaol and House of Correction, Bodmin County Gaol, Bodmin Prison, HMP Bodmin
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1779
Date closed post 1900 (1927)
Location Berrycoombe Road Bodmin
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 50.474883 Long. -4.730792
County Cornwall
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 467
Daily Greatest number - 185
Year 1823
Annual Committed - 497
Daily Census - 145
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 477
Daily Census - 143
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 738
Daily Census - 122
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 710
Daily Census - 115
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 795
Daily Census - 147
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 926
Daily Daily average - 159
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 671
Daily Daily average - 107
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 810
Daily Daily average - 120
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 789
Daily Greatest number - 142
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 895
Daily Daily average - 104
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 674
Daily Daily average - 89
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 762
Daily Daily average - 118
Year 1883
Annual Committed - 657
Daily Daily average - 119
Year 1888
Annual Committed - 434
Daily Daily average - 49
Year 1893
Annual Committed - 471
Daily -
Year 1898
Annual Committed - 566
Daily -
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS/1/11/517-549
Collection: Cornwall Quarter Sessions
Description: Report of chaplain (20 Oct 1829)
Dates: 1829
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS/1/11/658-694
Collection: Cornwall Quarter Sessions
Description: Repairs and alterations; numbers of prisoners; chaplain's report; surgeon's report; comments on gaol rate (20 Oct 1830)
Dates: 1830
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: AD661/8
Collection: None
Description: Order book, pattern shop, Oatey and Martyn, Iron Founders, Wadebridge. Includes orders for Bodmin Gaol. .
Dates: 1876-1883
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: KL/24/3
Collection: Kendall of Pelyn Lanlivery
Description: Bill to authorise Magistrates to arrange care of prisoners and to control use of treadmillÂ
Dates: 1824-1872
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS/1/11/467-487
Collection: Cornwall Quarter Sessions
Description: Prison labour and treadwheel
Dates: 1829
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: RO/1299
Collection: Rogers and Son, Helston, Solicitors
Description: Bodmin Gaol Committee.
Dates: 1871
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: RO/2355-2539
Collection: Rogers and Son, Helston, Solicitors
Description: Conveying prisoners to Gaol, prisoners' meals.
Dates: 1883
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM7/6
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Bodmin Prison: part taken over by the Admiralty for use as a naval prison
Dates: 1880-1888
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS/1/1-22
Collection: Cornwall Quarter Sessions
Description: Contents of the Order Books are described great detail in Cornwall Record Office's Catalogue. They contain a wealth of information about the administration of the county prisons, especially Bodmin County Gaol. For example: reports of governor, surgeon, chaplain, Visiting Justices; staff appointments; physical alterations and additions to the prison; dietaries; prisoner statistics and escapes
Dates: 1801-1899
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: AD1676/2/1-2
Collection: Cornwall Gaol Records
Description: Minutes, Visiting Committee
Dates: 1878-1916
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: P99/16a/1
Collection: None
Description: Accounts payable to Keeper of Bodmin Gaol for maintenance of children
Dates: 1819
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: CC/7/2/2
Collection: Mortgages on county rate
Description: Mortgages for Bodmin Gaol and County Asylum
Dates: 1857-1889
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: HC1/2/1/3-2
Collection: St Lawrence's Hospital, Bodmin
Description: Abstract of County Treasurer's annual accounts. Summary of receipts and expenditure, including for the Gaol.
Dates: 1866-1877
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: RO/5528-5569
Collection: Rogers and Son, Helston, Solicitors
Description: Quarterly accounts for maintenance of Helston Prisoners at Bodmin Gaol, with notification that prison taken over by government
Dates: 1867-1878
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: FS/3/1270/38
Collection: Photocopies of papers, William Osbourne, Royal Marine and Prison Warder
Description: Photocopy, testimonial from Chaplain of County Gaol
Dates: 1867
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: FS/3/1270
Collection: Photocopies of papers, William Osbourne, Royal Marine and Prison Warder
Description: Testimonial from retiring governor of Cornwall County Prison, 'William Osborn[e]' (1860). Also, travel warrant for six convicts and two officers from Bodmin to Leicester Prison (1864).
Dates: 1824-1867
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: D/R/286
Collection: Diocese of Truro
Description: Register of licenses to perpetual curacies. Includes appointments to Bodmin Prison
Dates: 1891-1916
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: AD1676/1/1-4
Collection: Cornwall Gaol Records
Description: Bridewell registers, Bodmin
Dates: 1821-1848
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: AD1676/3/3-4
Collection: Cornwall Gaol Records
Description: Nominal registers, Bodmin prison
Dates: 1895-1903
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: AD1676/4/1-4
Collection: Cornwall Gaol Records
Description: Gaol registers, Bodmin
Dates: 1831-1856
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: AD1676/4/5-14
Collection: Cornwall Gaol Records
Description: Criminal registers, Bodmin
Dates: 1848-1879
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: FS/6/5
Collection: Digital copies of documents
Description: Register of prisoners, Bodmin Gaol
Dates: 1821-1899
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: BLAUS/500
Collection: Borough of Launceston
Description: List, prisoners committed to County Gaol from Launceston Borough. Prisoners committed to County Gaol from Launceston Borough in five years.
Dates: 1833
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: FOX/B/2/90
Collection: Fox family of Falmouth incorporating G. C. Fox and Co
Description: Letter, Alfred Fox to Sarah Fox. From Bodmin Gaol. Written on a printed notice of meeting of trustees of Falmouth Savings Bank.
Dates: 1852
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: HC1/4/2/2
Collection: St Lawrence's Hospital, Bodmin
Description: St Lawrence's Hospital, Bodmin, admissions, private patients. Includes inmates transferred fom Bodmin Prison.
Dates: 1886-1890
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: X36
Collection: Papers, Bodmin, Camborne and London
Description: Printed material, prison sentences and topical verses.
Dates: 1820-1864
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: X106/1-7
Collection: 19th century broadsheets
Description: Broadsheets including list of sentences given to prisoners
Dates: 1824-1863
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: F/1/327/6
Collection: Fortescue family of Boconnoc
Description: Plan, lands in Bodmin Borough. Title on plan 'Statement of Lands in the borough in Bodmin the County of Cornwall'. Shows Bodmin Prison.
Dates: c.1811-1820
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: FS/3/240
Collection: None
Description: Facsimile copy. Letter from James Chapple, Builder / Surveyor, regarding new Prison.
Dates: 1827
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS/1/11/488-549
Collection: Cornwall Quarter Sessions
Description: Repairs and alterations, and new treadwheel
Dates: 1829
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS/1/14/745-746
Collection: Cornwall Quarter Sessions
Description: Report by Gaol Committee on purchase of land required to enlarge Gaol; expenditure on alterations; proposals for alterations
Dates: 1853
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS/HD/354
Collection: Cornwall Quarter Sessions
Description: Highway diversions at roads adjoining Gaol, Bodmin for enlargement of Gaol (deposition, certificate and plan) (November 1853)
Dates: 1853-1890
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: TM/84
Collection: None
Description: Tithe map, Helston, by J. H. Rutger, Marazion, Cornwall;. Public buildings (coloured and named), including Prison
Dates: 1838
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: X106
Collection: 19th century broadsheets
Description: Includes sale catalogue of Bodmin Prison (1930)
Dates: 1820-1930
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: X793/76
Collection: Pethybridge collection Â
Description: Signed undertaking, to deliver the title deeds of the old Prison, Bodmin (4 July 1835)
Dates: 1835-1836
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: corn00385
Collection: Cornwall County Council, Photographs of Cornwall Database
Description: Bodmin Prison, photograph
Dates: c.1900
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: G/1909/348
Collection: Gregor family of Trewarthenick
Description: Letter from Gordon Gregor to Sarah Gregor, comments on the number of prisoners in the gaol and their offences (14 Jul 1830)
Dates: 1830
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: T/2536A
Collection: Tremayne family of Heligan, St Ewe
Description: From J. H. Tremayne to his father re petitions from Bodmin Gaol
Dates: 1819
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: T/2614
Collection: Tremayne family of Heligan, St Ewe
Description: Letter from J H Tremayne to Reverend Henry Hawkins Tremayne, re visit to Bodmin gaol.
Dates: 1822
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: T/2666/1-2
Collection: Tremayne family of Heligan, St Ewe
Description: From J. H. Tremayne to his father re Launceston Gaol and Prisoners
Dates: 1822