Alternative Names Folkestone Gaol, Folkestone Town Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell, Lock Up
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened [1830]
Date closed [1851]
Location Guildhall, Sandgate Road (Rendezvous Street) Folkestone
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Kent
Folkestone Gaol at the Guildhall was constructed in 1830. It is not known whether the previous borough gaol that it replaced was located on the same site, so both are included in this record. By the mid 1840s, the gaol had become a lock up. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1850.
Alternative Names Folkestone Gaol, Folkestone Town Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened [1830]
Date closed [1851]
Location Guildhall, Sandgate Road (Rendezvous Street) Folkestone
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.0799357 Long. 1.1811333
County Kent
Folkestone Gaol at the Guildhall was constructed in 1830. It is not known whether the previous borough gaol that it replaced was located on the same site, so both are included in this record. By the mid 1840s, the gaol had become a lock up. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1850.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 4
Daily Greatest number - 2
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 6
Daily Census - 0
Year 1832
Annual Committed - 7
Daily Greatest number - 3
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 6
Daily Census - 0
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 32
Daily Census - 0
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 22
Daily Daily average - 0
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Fo/FC1/3/18
Collection: Folkestone Borough
Description: Stephen Hobday - vouchers, including payments to the Band (with lists of bandsmen), and Pledge's bill 'to Repair Irons and put on the Prisoners in ye Gaol'.
Dates: 1819-1820
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Fo/FC1/3/22
Collection: Folkestone Borough
Description: Includes list of prisoners confined in the Gaol 'since last General Sessions'.
Dates: 1823-1825
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Fo/AV/55
Collection: Folkestone Borough
Description: Improvement Act (1855) Papers. Rendezvous Street. Papers re the conveyance of the Cistern House (ie Town Hall, Guildhall), including the Steward's rooms and apartments 'now occupied by the Deputy Gaoler', and the Gaol, gaolyard and garden
Dates: 18551856
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: EK/U270/T246
Collection: None
Description: Counterpart leases - Folkestone (30 docUMENTS), Hawkinge (2 documents), Cheriton (1 document), lease for the market building (1830). Shows plan of the Gaol.
Dates: 1822-1864
