Clithero Borough Gaol

Overview

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1839]

Location   York Street   Clitheroe

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Lancashire

Critical Remarks

By the mid 1830s used primarily (if not only) as a lock up. Last appears in the penal statistics as a borough gaol in 1839. Potentially still used as a lock up until the 1880s.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1839]

Location   York Street   Clitheroe

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.8738896  Long.   -2.3894104

County   Lancashire

Critical Remarks

By the mid 1830s used primarily (if not only) as a lock up. Last appears in the penal statistics as a borough gaol in 1839. Potentially still used as a lock up until the 1880s.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • 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.21
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.1487

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.walkingbritain.co.uk/walk-2217-description