Chipping Wycombe Borough Prison

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Overview

Alternative Names   High-Wycomb Bridewell, Chepping Wycombe Borough Prison, , Borough of Chipping Wycombe Bridewell

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

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1812}

Date closed   [1830]

Location   St Mary's Street   High Wycombe

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Buckinghamshire

Critical Remarks

By the 1830s, a lock up house only.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   High-Wycomb Bridewell, Chepping Wycombe Borough Prison, , Borough of Chipping Wycombe Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1812}

Date closed   [1830]

Location   St Mary's Street   High Wycombe

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.6281663  Long.   -0.7530837

County   Buckinghamshire

Critical Remarks

By the 1830s, a lock up house only.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   8

Daily Greatest number   -   3

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   3

Daily Census   -   3

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.274
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.4
  • 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.3
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.9
  • 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.43