Carlisle City Gaol

Overview

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   unknown

Date closed   c1815

Location   Scotch Gate   Carlisle

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Cumberland

Critical Remarks

By the early nineteenth century, the City Gaol had fallen into disuse, and all prisoners were sent to the County Gaol (ID 10).

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   unknown

Date closed   c1815

Location   Scotch Gate   Carlisle

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   54.8964352  Long.   -2.9377045

County   Cumberland

Critical Remarks

By the early nineteenth century, the City Gaol had fallen into disuse, and all prisoners were sent to the County Gaol (ID 10).

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.111
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.1475

Additional Primary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/magna-britannia/vol4/pp56-81