Evesham Borough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Evesham Borough Gaol and Lock Up, Evesham Gaol

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

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   c1789

Date closed   [1835]

Location   town hall   Evesham

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Worcestershire

Critical Remarks

A new borough gaol, located within the town hall, replaced an former borough gaol which had been located to the north-east of the town hall around 1789. By the 1840s, a lock up only, attached to the new municipal police station established in the same building.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Evesham Borough Gaol and Lock Up, Evesham Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   c1789

Date closed   [1835]

Location   town hall   Evesham

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   52.085345  Long.   -1.957632

County   Worcestershire

Critical Remarks

A new borough gaol, located within the town hall, replaced an former borough gaol which had been located to the north-east of the town hall around 1789. By the 1840s, a lock up only, attached to the new municipal police station established in the same building.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   6

Daily Greatest number   -   2

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   11

Daily Census   -   11

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   27

Daily Greatest number   -   5

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.217
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.50
  • [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.45; 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.47
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.102
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.42
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.55
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.193), p.170

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.eveshamtowncouncil.gov.uk/; http://www.eveshamtown.co.uk/

Management

Archive name: Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

Catalogue ref: 405/5/7/1 (260.102 BA4611)

Collection: Evesham Petty Sessions

Description: Evesham Gaol order book

Dates: 1825-1836