Alternative Names Hastings Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol, Lock Up
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1818
Date closed [1856]
Location Bourne Street, overhanging Bourne Stream Hastings
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Sussex
In 1856, converted into a police station. The gaol listed in the 1818 Return could be a previous gaol located on a different site.
Alternative Names Hastings Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1818
Date closed [1856]
Location Bourne Street, overhanging Bourne Stream Hastings
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 50.856271 Long. 0.59225
County Sussex
In 1856, converted into a police station. The gaol listed in the 1818 Return could be a previous gaol located on a different site.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 8
Daily Greatest number - 3
Year 1832
Annual Committed - 42
Daily Greatest number - 9
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 131
Daily Census - 6
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 83
Daily Census - 4
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 118
Daily Daily average - 4
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 142
Daily Daily average - 6
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 136/666-675
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Includes correspondence regarding closure of Hastings Gaol and committal of borough prisoners to the House of Correction at Lewes
Dates: 1856
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 143
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Government circulars and returns including those regarding Hastings Gaol and its prisoners
Dates: 1836-1867
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 145
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Hastings Gaol correspondence and papers
Dates: 1824-1869
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: HAS CBD/1-67
Collection: Hastings Corporation
Description: Letters from the Secretary of State's office concerning persons tried, committed for trial and committed to Hastings Gaol. Copies of returns of prisoners.
Dates: 1816-1835
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: HAS CBE/1-10
Collection: Hastings Corporation
Description: Printed orders from the Secretary of State's office to the Mayor of Hastings for removals from Hastings Gaol of prisoners sentenced to transportation, to the hulks at Chatham, Woolwich and Sheerness, and accompanying correspondence, including returns
Dates: c.1817-1833
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: U1776/O6
Collection: Additional Hussey manuscripts
Description: Justice of the Peace - mainly printed notices. Includes rules of Horsham Gaol, Sussex (1844), report of Committee of Hastings Prison (1843).
Dates: 1843-1844
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 134/1
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Gaol rate accounts
Dates: 1820-1836
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: HAS CBR/2
Collection: Hastings Corporation
Description: County rate, general papers. Includes correspondence on the County rate for prisoners.
Dates: 1830s
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 134/4
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Register of daily food allowances of prisoners
Dates: 1846-1852
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 132/2
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Keeper's commitment book
Dates: 1842-1853
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 133/1
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Keepers' journal
Dates: 1842-1854
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 134/3
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Gaol keepers' cash account book
Dates: 1838-1856
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 133/2
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Surgeon's journal
Dates: 1842-1851
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 134/2
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Record book of maintenance of prisoners
Dates: 1838-1852
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 136/554
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Deposition of James Wellerd, Keeper of Hastings Gaol. William Durrant, aged 26 and 6 feet high, awaiting trial for larceny. At 8am on 31 December 1853, he escaped by climbing over the wall.
Dates: 1853
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 144
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Hastings Gaol applications for the post of Gaoler
Dates: 1856
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: FRE 2658/14
Collection: None
Description: Letter written from Leicestershire by Thomas Bishopp to John Frewen about taking up his appointment to the parish of Sapcote, his wish to be appointed as Surgeon to one or both of the Gaols (probably Hastings and Lewes), and his medical work
Dates: pre-1807
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Microfilm XA/78/12
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Registers of prisoners at Hastings Gaol (1838-1853)
Dates: 1838-1853
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 135/1
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: List of the prisoners (indexed) committed to gaol
Dates: 1832-1841
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: HAS CBM/58
Collection: Hastings Corporation
Description: Draft list of convictions and prisoners, with offences
Dates: 1830-1832
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 132/1
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Gaol register, including, at back, a list of visitors to the Gaol
Dates: 1838-1842
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: HAS CBJ/1
Collection: Hastings Corporation
Description: Committals to Gaol
Dates: 1824-1833
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: HAS CBR/2/10
Collection: Hastings Corporation
Description: Draft numbers of prisoners tried for offences committed within Hastings
Dates: 1832-1834, 1835
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: HAS BBD/10
Collection: Hastings Corporation
Description: William Cramp, Lewes Prison, to the Keeper of the Gaol at Hastings. With details of the size of the sitting rooms, cells and beds used by the prisoners, and hygiene measures which should be taken.
Dates: 1811
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 118/51
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Painting the Gaoler's room and the outside of the Gaol.
Dates: 1855
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: ACC 5290/10
Collection: None
Description: Hastings Improvement Commissioners. Two messuages on the Bourne, together with the site of the Gaol in Hastings.
Dates: 1742-1821
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 136/1020-1058
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Includes correspondence regarding proposed alterations to the old gaol (currently used as a lock up), to make it fit again for reception of convicted prisoners
Dates: 1862
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: DH/B 136/802
Collection: Hastings Borough Council
Description: Report by Inspector William (Montague) Glenister, Police Station, High Street, Hastings to the Hastings Watch Committee, proposing alterations to the gaol (lock up)
Dates: 1857
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: HAS EC/7
Collection: Hastings Corporation
Description: Hastings Improvement Commissioners to John Tompsett, in trust for the Justices of the Peace. Part of land comprised in HAS EC/6 for use as a Gaol. Includes site plan showing the Gaol and adjoining properties.
Dates: 1821
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: HAS ED/1-70
Collection: Hastings Corporation
Description: Correspondence concerning the re-building and extension of Hastings Gaol.
Dates: 1819-1820