Eye Borough Gaol

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1817

Date closed   [1839]

Location   poor house, Castleton Way   Eye

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Suffolk

Critical Remarks

By 1830, functioning only as a lock up house. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1838.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1817

Date closed   [1839]

Location   poor house, Castleton Way   Eye

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   52.313378  Long.   1.1380848

County   Suffolk

Critical Remarks

By 1830, functioning only as a lock up house. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1838.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   14

Daily Greatest number   -   2

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   0

Daily Census   -  

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.44
  • 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.41
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.43
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2230
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.161), p.97