Henley Town Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Henley Upon Thames Lock-up House

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1796

Date closed   [1830]

Location   under town hall   Henley-on-Thames

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Oxfordshire

Critical Remarks

By the 1830s at least, functioned only as a lock up.

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Prison Info

Alternative Names   Henley Upon Thames Lock-up House

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1796

Date closed   [1830]

Location   under town hall   Henley-on-Thames

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.531802  Long.   -0.9057478

County   Oxfordshire

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Critical Remarks

By the 1830s at least, functioned only as a lock up.

Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -  

Daily Greatest number   -   3

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.265
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.38
  • Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.37
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.53
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.73
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.269), p.55

Additional Primary Sources

  • Robert Gardner, History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Oxford (1852), pp. 539

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/explore/items/town-hall-and-guild-hall

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Management

Archive name: Oxfordshire History Centre

Catalogue ref: BOR3/A/XXI/1

Collection: Henley Borough

Description: Printed copy of the Bill and Gaol Act, with letter to the Chief Magistrate of Henley ordering its enforcement

Dates: 1824

Archive name: Oxfordshire History Centre

Catalogue ref: BOR3/A/XXI/2

Collection: Henley Borough

Description: Report of the Committee appointed for ascertaining the powers of the Corporation for providing a more convenient Gaol, and for establishing a better police force

Dates: 1830

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