Chipping Norton Prison

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1830]

Location   town hall   Chipping Norton

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Oxfordshire

Critical Remarks

By the 1830s at least, functioned only as a lock up.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1830]

Location   town hall   Chipping Norton

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.931654  Long.   -1.5505441

County   Oxfordshire

Critical Remarks

By the 1830s at least, functioned only as a lock up.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -  

Daily Greatest number   -   3

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.38
  • Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.37
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.30
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.35

Additional Primary Sources

  • Robert Gardner, History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Oxford (1852), pp. 513-4

Management

Archive name: Oxfordshire History Centre

Catalogue ref: QS1852/3/A9/45

Collection: Oxfordshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Notes on Chipping Norton Borough Prison

Dates: 1852