Cockermouth County House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names   Cockermouth County Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   pre 1800

Date closed   [1855]

Location   St Helen's Street   Cockermouth

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Cumberland

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1854.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Cockermouth County Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   pre 1800

Date closed   [1855]

Location   St Helen's Street   Cockermouth

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   54.6650338  Long.   -3.353808

County   Cumberland

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1854.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   19

Daily Greatest number   -   15

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   49

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   110

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   57

Daily Daily average   -   0

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   91

Daily Daily average   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.139
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.8
  • The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.12
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.105; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.10; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.50; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.793), p.68; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.265), p.79; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854, XXXII.1), p.73

Additional Primary Sources

  • Mannix and Whellan, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland (Beverley, 1847), p. 523.

Prisoners

Archive name: Whitehaven Archive & Local Studies Centre

Catalogue ref: DLEC/CR/I/159/6

Collection: Coroners for Cockermouth and Egremont

Description: Inquest into the death of Fletcher Watson of Cockermouth. Verdict - hanged himself in House of Correction

Dates: 1839


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Carlisle Archive Centre

Catalogue ref: Q/A/G/6

Collection: Cumberland Quarter Sessions

Description: Lease of the House of Correction at Cockermouth for 21 years

Dates: 1824