Chesterfield House of Correction

Overview

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Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Chesterfield Town Bridewell, Chesterfield County Lock Up House

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1614

Date closed   [1828]

Location   unknown   Chesterfield

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Derbyshire

Critical Remarks

When inspected in the late 1840s, this former county House of Correction was being used a lock up.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Chesterfield Town Bridewell, Chesterfield County Lock Up House

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1614

Date closed   [1828]

Location   unknown   Chesterfield

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   53.234681  Long.   -1.4321492

County   Derbyshire

Critical Remarks

When inspected in the late 1840s, this former county House of Correction was being used a lock up.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   181

Daily Greatest number   -   27

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   142

Daily Census   -   6

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.133
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.8
  • 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.24; 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.22
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.62; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.58; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.60; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.53; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.62
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.1790
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.167

Finance

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/11

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle: direction to supply an account of expenses issued in building, repairing, fitting and furnishing gaols and houses of correction since 1800, 23 Mar; returns and accounts relating to the County Gaol and the houses of correction at Ashbourne, Chesterfield, Tideswell and Wirksworth.

Dates: 19th century


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/1

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaol Presentments for want of repair (1788-1822). Includes the vagrants' room in Chesterfield House of Correction (1822). 

Dates: 1822