Alternative Names Fulham Refuge, Fulham Reformatory
Prison Type Convict Prison
Date opened 1856
Date closed 1888
Location Burlington Road Fulham
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Middlesex
Opened May 1856 as Fulham Refuge. Intended as a female equivalent to the male public works prisons: for females in the latter stages of punishment and to provide them with tuition in a range of household skills (cooking, washing etc) with the hope these would assist them in gaining employment on discharge. However, in the 1860s began to function increasingly like a prison, and with the opening of Woking Female Prison in 1869 was similarly renamed, Fulham Prison. A declining number of female convicts in the 1880s especially led to the closure of Fulham Prison in February 1888.
Alternative Names Fulham Refuge, Fulham Reformatory
Prison Type Convict Prison
Date opened 1856
Date closed 1888
Location Burlington Road Fulham
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.470289 Long. -0.2091121
County Middlesex
Opened May 1856 as Fulham Refuge. Intended as a female equivalent to the male public works prisons: for females in the latter stages of punishment and to provide them with tuition in a range of household skills (cooking, washing etc) with the hope these would assist them in gaining employment on discharge. However, in the 1860s began to function increasingly like a prison, and with the opening of Woking Female Prison in 1869 was similarly renamed, Fulham Prison. A declining number of female convicts in the 1880s especially led to the closure of Fulham Prison in February 1888.
Year 1858
Annual Confined - 296
Daily Census - 167
Year 1863
Annual Confined - 303
Daily Census - 176
Year 1868
Annual Confined - 219
Daily Census - 136
Year 1873
Annual Confined - 375
Daily Census - 281
Year 1878
Annual Confined - 374
Daily Census - 287
Year 1883
Annual Confined - 321
Daily Census - 218
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM 7/224
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Warrants constituting and appointing Convict Prisons etc. Fulham Refuge (females)
Dates: 1856-1885
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: HO 8/131-207
Collection: Home Office
Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Hulks and Convict Prisons, Fulham Refuge, Middlesex
Dates: 1857-1876
Archive name: Surrey History Centre
Catalogue ref: 1262/45-48
Collection: Diaries of Edward Ryde, Freelance Surveyor
Description: Refers to valuation and sale of Millbank and Fulham Prisons (1888-1891)
Dates: 1888-1891