Exeter City Gaol

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Alternative Names   Exeter South Gate City and County Gaol, Southgate Exeter

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   16th century

Date closed   1819

Location   prison within the South Gate, South Street   Exeter

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Devon

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Prison Info

Alternative Names   Exeter South Gate City and County Gaol, Southgate Exeter

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   16th century

Date closed   1819

Location   prison within the South Gate, South Street   Exeter

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   50.7203159  Long.   -3.5301934

County   Devon

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Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   92

Daily Greatest number   -   26

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.209
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.10

Additional Primary Sources

  • William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire (Sheffield, 1850), p. 70.

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/councildemocracy/record_office/information_dalss/guide_sources/crime/prisons_in_devon.htm; W.J. Forsythe, A System of Discipline: Exeter Borough Prison, 1819-1863 (University of Exeter, 1983), p. 6.

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Daily Business

Archive name: Devon Heritage Centre

Catalogue ref: ECA Bk 251

Collection: Exeter City Archive

Description: Book labelled 'Southgate Prison', serves as chaplain's diary

Dates: 1816-1819

Prisoners

Archive name: Devon Heritage Centre

Catalogue ref: ECA Bk 266a

Collection: Exeter City Archive

Description: General Gaol Delivery Book

Dates: 1740-1819

Archive name: Devon Heritage Centre

Catalogue ref: ECA Bk 267

Collection: Exeter City Archive

Description: Sentences of prisoners tried at Quarter Sessions

Dates: 1801-1824

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