Ely City Bridewell

Overview

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Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Ely Bridewell, Ely House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1651

Date closed   1820

Location   unknown   Ely

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Cambridgeshire

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Ely Bridewell, Ely House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1651

Date closed   1820

Location   unknown   Ely

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   52.396357  Long.   0.26194578

County   Cambridgeshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   50

Daily Greatest number   -   20

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.205
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.4

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp28-33

Management

Archive name: Cambridgeshire Archives

Catalogue ref: E/QSO/1-56

Collection: Isle of Ely Quarter Sessions

Description: Minute books for the Isle of Ely Quarter Sessions (likely to contain material on the administration of Ely prisons)

Dates: 1801-1882