Hereford City Gaol

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Hereford City Gaol and Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   16th century

Date closed   1842

Location   Bye Street Gate, Bye Street Gate entrance to City (where modern Commercial Street and Union Street meet)   Hereford

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Herefordshire

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Hereford City Gaol and Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   16th century

Date closed   1842

Location   Bye Street Gate, Bye Street Gate entrance to City (where modern Commercial Street and Union Street meet)   Hereford

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.057614  Long.   -2.7130585

County   Herefordshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   9

Daily Greatest number   -   9

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   284

Daily Census   -   133

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   187

Daily Greatest number   -   41

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   230

Daily Census   -   21

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.269
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.20
  • The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.28; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.56; 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.17
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.58
  • 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.260
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.269), p.30; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.37; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.217), p.171; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.177), p.83

Secondary Sources

  • http://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/671.aspx; R. Shoesmith and R. Crosskey, 'Go to Gaol ... In Hereford', Woolhope Club Transactions (1994), pp. 97-139

Management

Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: BG11/17/5/122

Collection: Hereford City

Description: Records relating to Gaols, including Gaoler's salary, expenses caused by the defective state of the Prisons, and by sending city prisoners to the County Gaol for security.

Dates: 1832


Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: A86/1E-4

Collection: Herefordshire County Council

Description: Hereford City Gaol: papers

Dates: 1837-1880


Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: K38/Cd/6 Box 2

Collection: None

Description: Notes on gaols and prisons from City Council minute books

Dates: undated


Staff

Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: BG11/5/15

Collection: Hereford City

Description: City Gaol, statement of establishment of officers and servants

Dates: 1834


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: BG11/5/15

Collection: Hereford City

Description: City Gaol, plans of Gaol

Dates: 1836