Alternative Names Gosport Bridewell, Gosport County Bridewell
Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell, Lock Up
Jurisdiction County
Date opened pre 1800
Date closed [1859]
Location South Street Gosport
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Hampshire
By 1859, in use as a police station.
Alternative Names Gosport Bridewell, Gosport County Bridewell
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened pre 1800
Date closed [1859]
Location South Street Gosport
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 50.794292 Long. -1.121358
County Hampshire
By 1859, in use as a police station.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 573
Daily Greatest number - 45
Year 1824
Annual Committed - 285
Daily Census - 23
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 261
Daily Census - 27
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 532
Daily Census - 37
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 343
Daily Census - 24
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 299
Daily Census - 23
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 574
Daily Daily average - 34
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q13/1/2
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Book entiled 'Report on Winchester Gaol'. Contains examinations of keeper and depositions of surgeon, report on Bridewell, plan
Dates: 1816-1817
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q1/26-29, 31-32, 37-38, 40-42
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Quarter Sessions order books. Including coverage of the Gosport Bridewell's poor state of repair and repairs needed, prison administration (visitors, staff, rules)
Dates: 1801-1851
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 15M84/Z3/10
Collection: Wallop, Earls of Portsmouth
Description: Report of the Committee appointed to examine into the state of the Hampshire County Gaol and Bridewells, and to report on best mode of employing the prisoners, to recommend regulations
Dates: 1817
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 44M69/G3/979
Collection: Jervoise family of Herriard
Description: Printed report of the committee appointed to examine into the state of the Hampshire county gaol and bridewells. Includes ground plans of the bridewell at Gosport
Dates: 1817
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/1/32
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letter from Baron de Hockepied (General Porter), Fareham, to Sir Thomas Baring, concerning Baring's forthcoming visit to Gosport BridewellÂ
Dates: 1819
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/1/33
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letter from Baron de Hockepied (General Porter), Fareham, to Sir Thomas Baring reporting that Gosport Bridewell is nearing completion and anticipating a visit by Baring
Dates: 1819
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q13/1/1
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Book containing 'Proceedings of Bridewell Committee'
Dates: 1811-1816
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/1/48
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letter from Sir John A. Ommanney, Warblington House, relating to irregularities in the accounts kept by the Governor of the Gosport Bridewell
Dates: 1844
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q10/6/1-6
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Bridewells and vagrants account books (Gosport until 1850)
Dates: 1715-1861
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PROB 11/2212/113
Collection: None
Description: Will of John Macklin, Bridewell Keeper of Gosport, Hampshire
Dates: 1855
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/1/20
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letter from William Gover to Sir Thomas Baring concerning proposed alterations to the Gosport BridewellÂ
Dates: 1819
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/1/28-30
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letters, re proposed alterations to Gosport Bridewell
Dates: 1819Â