Alternative Names Buckingham Castle Gaol, Buckingham Borough Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell, Lock Up
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1748
Date closed 1878 [1890]
Location Market Hill Buckingham
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Buckinghamshire
Entirely rebuilt in 1838. Served as a local prison, at least nominally, until 1868. By the 1850s also began to serve as a county lock up house, and continued to appear in the Judicial Statistics until at least 1878. The gaol was officially closed in 1890 when a new police station was built on Moreton Road.
Alternative Names Buckingham Castle Gaol, Buckingham Borough Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1748
Date closed 1878 [1890]
Location Market Hill Buckingham
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.0008989 Long. -0.9864688
County Buckinghamshire
Entirely rebuilt in 1838. Served as a local prison, at least nominally, until 1868. By the 1850s also began to serve as a county lock up house, and continued to appear in the Judicial Statistics until at least 1878. The gaol was officially closed in 1890 when a new police station was built on Moreton Road.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 13
Daily Greatest number - 7
Year 1832
Annual Committed - 9
Daily Greatest number - 6
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 12
Daily Census - 0
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 29
Daily Census - 5
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 16
Daily Daily average - 0
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 11
Daily Daily average - 0
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 12
Daily Daily average - 0
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 9
Daily Greatest number - 39
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 22
Daily Daily average - 2
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 22
Daily Daily average - 3
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 5
Daily Daily average - 0
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: Q/AP/20/5b
Collection: Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Use by the county of the magistrates' chamber and part of the Town Gaol
Dates: 1873
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: Q/AP/3/7a-c
Collection: Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Letter from Town Clerk concerning the renting of cells in Buckingham Borough Gaol
Dates: 1866-1867
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: Q/AP/20/5a
Collection: Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Clerk, Buckingham, about rent owed by the county for the use of cells in the Town Gaol
Dates: 1870
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: B/Buc/4/15/1
Collection: Buckingham Borough
Description: Declarations on acceptance of office, with entries for offices of Gaoler and Gaol Chaplain
Dates: 1835-1856
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: B/Buc/5/3
Collection: Buckingham Borough
Description: Register of committals to the Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1827-1837
Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Catalogue ref: B/Buc/4/42/1-5
Collection: Buckingham Borough
Description: Plans and specifications for alterations to the Gaol by George Gilbert Scott (1839), and papers relating to its use after decommissioning (1878 and 1889)
Dates: 1839, 1878, 1889
