Alternative Names Yarmouth Town Gaol, Yarmouth Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 13th century [1818]
Date closed 1875
Location adjoins to the Toll-House Hall, Gaol Street (now Tolhouse Street?) Great Yarmouth
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Norfolk
According to the prison inspectors, there was a gaol on this site from about the 1200s. The most recent gaol built in 1818.
Alternative Names Yarmouth Town Gaol, Yarmouth Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 13th century [1818]
Date closed 1875
Location adjoins to the Toll-House Hall, Gaol Street (now Tolhouse Street?) Great Yarmouth
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.604175 Long. 1.726741
County Norfolk
According to the prison inspectors, there was a gaol on this site from about the 1200s. The most recent gaol built in 1818.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 64
Daily Greatest number - 19
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 103
Daily Census - 103
Year 1832
Annual Committed - 105
Daily Greatest number - 27
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 235
Daily Census - 15
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 432
Daily Census - 35
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 208
Daily Daily average - 21
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 261
Daily Daily average - 23
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 232
Daily Daily average - 24
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 365
Daily Greatest number - 65
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 372
Daily Daily average - 46
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 328
Daily Daily average - 34
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/TC 5/32
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Gaol Committee agenda and Assistant Chaplain's report re books for Prison library
Dates: 1856
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/65 (MF 1886)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Gaol Sessions minute book
Dates: 1853-1876
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/S 11/1-3
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Recorder's minute books
Dates: 1872-1880, 1882-1883, 1887-1893
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/S 2/1-9 (MF 1031-1033)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Quarter Sessions waste (draft) books
Dates: 1811-1864
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/TC 3/37
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Other Committees, including GaolÂ
Dates: 1851-1875
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/TC 4/1
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Draft Committee minutes, Gaol
Dates: 1836-1843
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/TC 90/1/15
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Miscellaneous papers, prisoners' van
Dates: 1887
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/TC 90/10/16
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Yarmouth prison claims
Dates: 1875-1888
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/61 (MF 1885)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Visiting Justices' order book
Dates: 1846-1875
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/62-63 (MF 1885-1886)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Visiting Justices' minute books
Dates: 1843-1876
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/TC 3/36
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Port dues (1836-1850), Mayor's Assistants (1836-1851), market tolls (1836-1853), Gaol (1836-1850)
Dates: 1836-1853
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/27 (MF 1878)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Register of employment
Dates: 1868-1875
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/56-58 (MF 1884-1885)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Chaplain's journals
Dates: 1847-1865
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/59 (MF 1885)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Chaplain's private journal (1856-1865); later used for accounts of money taken at Tollhouse Museum door (1886-1887)
Dates: 1856-1887
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/46-51 (MF 1882-1883)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Gaol keepers' journalsÂ
Dates: 1825-1876
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/60 (MF 1885)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Schoolmaster's journal
Dates: 1853-1862
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/52-55 (MF 1884)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Surgeon's journals
Dates: 1838-1875
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/64 (MF 1886)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Visitors' book (unofficial visitors)
Dates: 1843-1879
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/34 (MF 1879)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Dietary book
Dates: 1839-1844
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/35 (MF 1879)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Provisions account book
Dates: 1835-1843
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/36-42 (MF 1879-1881)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Receipt and consumption account books
Dates: 1845-1875
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/43 (MF 1881)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Diet class book
Dates: 1852-1867
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/44-45 (MF 1882)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Gaol account books
Dates: 1850-1875
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/66 (MF 1886)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Misconduct book
Dates: 1849-1875
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: MC 528/1-14
Collection: Papers of and about Sarah Martin
Description: Prison visitor at Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol. Notes and papers.
Dates: 1841-1843
Archive name: Tolhouse Museum, Great Yarmouth Museum Service
Catalogue ref: None
Collection: None
Description: Sarah Martin, prison visitor: Everyday Books
Dates: undated
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/C 19/41
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Petition of Richard Helsdon, Gaoler, for increase of yearly allowance of six chaldrons of coal for the gaol, seven chalders, 21 bushels and three pecks being consumed yearly on the kitchen fire, the debtors' fire and the felons' fire (the latter lit only half the year), besides coal used for occasional fires for Corporation Assemblies, Poor Rate appeals, examinations of prisoners etc (24 December 1801). One additional chalder granted.
Dates: 1800-1804
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/25 (MF 1877)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Summary of convictions register
Dates: 1852-c1870s
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/26 (MF 1877)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Register of prisoners' belongings
Dates: 1867-1875
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/28 (MF 1878)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Register of admissions
Dates: 1868-1873
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/30 (MF 1878)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Register of particulars of prisoners convicted under 1st schedule of Habitual Criminals Act (1869)
Dates: 1870-1873
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/67 (MF 1886)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Register of prisoners committed for re-examination
Dates: 1875-1877
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/8-18 (MF 1873-1876)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Gaol registers (including indexes and supplementary register)
Dates: 1808-1875
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/D 41
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Yarmouth Borough Gaol. Gaol receiving book, record of prisoners received and discharged, including descriptions and personal details.
Dates: 1842-1845
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/1-3 (MF 1872)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Gaol books
Dates: 1798-1865
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/22-24 (MF 1877)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Daily number books
Dates: 1837-1873
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/29 (MF 1878)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Journal of admissions and discharges
Dates: 1869-1876
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/31-33 (MF 1878)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Discharge books
Dates: 1850-1874
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/4 (MF 1872)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Bridewell book
Dates: 1822-1838
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/5-6 (MF 1873)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Committal and discharge books, with separate sections for debtors and Bridewell inmates
Dates: 1819-1838
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/7
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Index and Receiving book (prisoners and their belongings)
Dates: 1838-1839
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/C 34/15/1-21
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Package containing indentures transferring the prisoners in the Gaol from the outgoing to the incoming Mayor at Michaelmas. Names and offences of prisoners stated.
Dates: 1814-1834
Archive name: Great Yarmouth Museums
Catalogue ref: Y/L 2/19-21 (MF 1876)
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol
Description: Analyses of registers
Dates: 1840-1870
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: Y/C 36/27
Collection: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Description: Correspondence, specifications, tenders and other papers. Relating to the extension of the Borough Gaol (Francis Stone of Norwich, Architect)
Dates: 1823-1825