Cambridge Town Gaol

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1790

Date closed   1829

Location   St Andrew's Street   Cambridge

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Cambridgeshire

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1790

Date closed   1829

Location   St Andrew's Street   Cambridge

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.204608  Long.   0.122558

County   Cambridgeshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   110

Daily Greatest number   -   16

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   163

Daily Census   -   23

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.100
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.4
  • The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.6; Fourth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1822), Appendix, p.6; 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.7; 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.9; 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.9
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.10

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/directory_record/4182/prisons

Finance

Archive name: Cambridgeshire Archives

Catalogue ref: 1360/CB/6/1

Collection: Cambridgeshire Constabulary

Description: Account book of John Payne, Borough Gaoler (found within the records of Cambridge Borough Police Force)

Dates: 1822-1839


Daily Business

Archive name: Cambridgeshire Archives

Catalogue ref: 1360/CB/7

Collection: Cambridgeshire Constabulary

Description: Records of the visits to female prisoners

Dates: 1822-1839


Staff

Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch

Catalogue ref: EL110/7/73

Collection: Mildenhall parish

Description: Letter from Keeper of Cambridge Town Gaol about helping to provide necessaries for Sarah Pitchers, wife of Jas. Pitchers, and her child, to be transported to New South Wales for seven years

Dates: 1828