Alternative Names Bridgnorth Prisons
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol, Lock Up
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened [1823]
Date closed [1855]
Location 5 Whitburn Street Bridgnorth
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Shropshire
The gaol in Whitburn Street was built in 1823. The site of the previous Bridgnorth Gaol is not known, hence they have been included in the same record. By the earlier 1850s, functioning primarily (if not only) as a lock up . Last appears in the penal statistics for 1854.
Alternative Names Bridgnorth Prisons
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened [1823]
Date closed [1855]
Location 5 Whitburn Street Bridgnorth
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.536299 Long. -2.4216492
County Shropshire
The gaol in Whitburn Street was built in 1823. The site of the previous Bridgnorth Gaol is not known, hence they have been included in the same record. By the earlier 1850s, functioning primarily (if not only) as a lock up . Last appears in the penal statistics for 1854.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 3
Daily Greatest number - 0
Year 1832
Annual Committed - 0
Daily Greatest number - 0
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 71
Daily Census - 0
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 0
Daily Census - 0
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 169
Daily Daily average - 1
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 183
Daily Daily average - 0
Archive name: Shropshire Archives
Catalogue ref: DA2/134/13
Collection: Bridgnorth Borough
Description: Correspondence and papers re Borough authority (1836-1867). Also, draft minutes of a meeting of members of the Borough Council and the Finance Committee relative to a proposed rent for use of the Borough Gaol as a 'Lock-up house' for county prisoners.
Dates: 1862
Archive name: Shropshire Archives
Catalogue ref: DA2/176/1-2
Collection: Bridgnorth Borough
Description: Returns to central government. Includes returns for the Borough Gaol (June 1835), return of bastard children (1835), and return re Borough rates.
Dates: 1833-1840
Archive name: Shropshire Archives
Catalogue ref: DA2/993/3/7
Collection: Bridgnorth Borough
Description: Correspondence re the Borough Lockup. Correspondence with Shropshire County Council re the amount of the settlement to be made to the Corporation for the discharging of their duties re the Borough Lock-up.
Dates: 1890-1892
Archive name: Shropshire Archives
Catalogue ref: DA2/134/12
Collection: Bridgnorth Borough
Description: Clerk's miscellaneous correspondence
Dates: 1836, 1843, 1844
Archive name: Shropshire Archives
Catalogue ref: BB/E/5/1/3
Collection: None
Description: Mortgage towards the repair of the House of Correction. Town Council of Bridgnorth and Mrs Harriet Beddoes of Quatford, Widow. Mortgage of 50 from 2-1 towards repairing the House of Correction in Bridgnorth in accordance with an Act of Parliament.
Dates: 1838
Archive name: Shropshire Archives
Catalogue ref: DA2/134/17
Collection: Bridgnorth Borough
Description: Documents re appointment of Bridgnorth Gaol Surgeon
Dates: 1843, 1840-1849
Archive name: Shropshire Archives
Catalogue ref: MI1499/1
Collection: None
Description: Account of Subsistence of Prisoners in Brignorth Gaol. Lists all the prisoners, their crime, the duration of their term, the date of imprisonment and the cost of their imprisonment.
Dates: 1835
Archive name: Shropshire Archives
Catalogue ref: DA2/726/1
Collection: Bridgnorth Borough
Description: Tenders for construction work for Corporation property (1843-1844). Includes 2 estimates and 2 plans for building an extension to the Borough Gaol (1823-1837).
Dates: 1823-1844
