Buntingford Bridewell

Overview

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Records

Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   18th century

Date closed   1843

Location   Bridewell House, Wyddial Road, originally functioned as the Waggon and Horses   Buntingford

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Hertfordshire

Critical Remarks

Foundation date unknown, but before 1700 the building functioned as the Waggon and Horses Inn.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   18th century

Date closed   1843

Location   Bridewell House, Wyddial Road, originally functioned as the Waggon and Horses   Buntingford

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.9495725  Long.   -0.0181371

County   Hertfordshire

Critical Remarks

Foundation date unknown, but before 1700 the building functioned as the Waggon and Horses Inn.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   45

Daily Greatest number   -   5

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.83
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.20

Secondary Sources

  • http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-436-1/dissemination/pdf/buntingford.pdf

Finance

Archive name: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: QS/GP/24

Collection: Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Receipted Accounts

Dates: 1742-1838