Alternative Names Falmouth Town Prison, Falmouth Common Gaol and House of Correction, Falmouth Borough Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell, Lock Up
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1660 [1831]
Date closed 1866
Location Prince (or Prince's) Street (present day top of High Street where Prince Street Gardens now stand) Falmouth
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Cornwall
Although Falmouth had a town prison from 1660, it is unclear whether the new gaol which opened in 1831 on Prince's Street was constructed on the same site as the previous gaol. Hence both gaols have been included in the same record. By c1840, the town gaol was essentially being used as a lock up only, but was only officially closed as a borough gaol in 1866.
Alternative Names Falmouth Town Prison, Falmouth Common Gaol and House of Correction, Falmouth Borough Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1660 [1831]
Date closed 1866
Location Prince (or Prince's) Street (present day top of High Street where Prince Street Gardens now stand) Falmouth
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 50.157913 Long. -5.0738495
County Cornwall
Although Falmouth had a town prison from 1660, it is unclear whether the new gaol which opened in 1831 on Prince's Street was constructed on the same site as the previous gaol. Hence both gaols have been included in the same record. By c1840, the town gaol was essentially being used as a lock up only, but was only officially closed as a borough gaol in 1866.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 8
Daily Greatest number - 2
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 13
Daily Census - 13
Year 1832
Annual Committed - 68
Daily Greatest number - 12
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 44
Daily Census - 3
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 62
Daily Census - 0
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 126
Daily Daily average - 0
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 82
Daily Daily average - 0
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 123
Daily Daily average - 10
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 90
Daily Greatest number - 12
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: AD933/4
Collection: Cornish Local Acts
Description: Act to provide for the discontinuance of a separate Court of Quarter Sessions and a separate Gaol in the Borough of Falmouth
Dates: 1865
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS/1/16/298
Collection: Cornwall Quarter Sessions
Description: Assent of Justices present given conditionally to the conveyance of the Prison at Falmouth to the County to be used as a Lock-up House.
Dates: 1865
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: X394/49
Collection: None
Description: Petition to Town Council of Falmouth for the abolition of the Borough Quarter Sessions and Prison
Dates: 1864
Archive name: Cornwall Record Office
Catalogue ref: X517/28
Collection: Libraries' records, miscellaneous
Description: Including Gaol and Marshalsea Rates (for the purposes of building a Gaol in Falmouth)
Dates: 1831