Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1808
Date closed [1818]
Location adjacent to City Gaol (City Walls Road) Chester
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Cheshire
Although the Chester City House of Correction was located next to the City Gaol (ID 94) and shared the same management, it was considered a separate institution in the 1818 Return and in the Royal Commission of 1835. Official returns from 1824, however, merge the two institutions.
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1808
Date closed [1818]
Location adjacent to City Gaol (City Walls Road) Chester
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 53.1912379 Long. -2.8976623
County Cheshire
Although the Chester City House of Correction was located next to the City Gaol (ID 94) and shared the same management, it was considered a separate institution in the 1818 Return and in the Royal Commission of 1835. Official returns from 1824, however, merge the two institutions.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 26
Daily Greatest number - 21
Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: ZM/F/216
Collection: Mayor of Chester
Description: Papers relating to outbreaks of fever in the House of Correction
Dates: 1800-1801
Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: ZM/F/233
Collection: Mayor of Chester
Description: Papers relating to outbreaks of fever in the House of Correction
Dates: 1817-1818
Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: ZQFA/1
Collection: Chester Quarter Sessions
Description: Public accounts. Expenditure includes supplies to the House of Correction.
Dates: 1828-1836
Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: ZTCC/187-188
Collection: City of Chester Town Clerk
Description: Memoranda on the total expenditure on building, repairing, fitting and furnishing the City Gaol (£7,420 13s. 6d.) and the House of Correction (£9,306 2s. 8d) since 1800 (19 September 1831).
Dates: 1831
