Hereford City Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Hereford City Gaol and House of Correction

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

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1842

Date closed   1878

Location   Gaol Lane or Gaol Street   Hereford

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Herefordshire

Critical Remarks

Closed as a result of the 1877 Prisons Act, and part of the building was converted into use as the Central Police Station

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Hereford City Gaol and House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1842

Date closed   1878

Location   Gaol Lane or Gaol Street   Hereford

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.0560198  Long.   -2.711722

County   Herefordshire

Critical Remarks

Closed as a result of the 1877 Prisons Act, and part of the building was converted into use as the Central Police Station

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   294

Daily Census   -   20

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   261

Daily Daily average   -   25

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   187

Daily Daily average   -   15

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   137

Daily Daily average   -   12

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   291

Daily Greatest number   -   38

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   243

Daily Daily average   -   18

 

Year 1873

Annual Committed   -   228

Daily Daily average   -   18

 

Year 1878

Annual Committed   -   12

Daily Daily average   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.294
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.256; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.565), p.232; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.237; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.133), p.149; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.93), p.23; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852, XXIV.1), p.13; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854, XXXIV.1), p.47; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.485), p.27; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.1), p.42; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.1), p.36; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.229), p.36; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.93), p.40; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.1), p.39; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.108; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.95; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.203), p.129; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1868-69, XXIX.1), p.87; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1870, XXXVII.1), p.100; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.241), p.122; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.1), p.76; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.1), p.143; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.1), p.163; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.1), p.180; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.1), p.180; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.1), p.183; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLI.1), p.183

Additional Primary Sources

  • Edward Cassey, History, Topography and Directory of Herefordshire (Preston, 1858), p. 113

Secondary Sources

  • http://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/669.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: A86/1E-4

Collection: Herefordshire County Council

Description: Hereford City Gaol: papers

Dates: 1837-1880


Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: AK68/2

Collection: None

Description: Report on the amalgamation of Hereford City and County police and gaols

Dates: 1872


Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: HCC minutes

Collection: Hereford City Council

Description: The Herefored City Council minutes include much relevant material on the administration of the city prisons. Including an investigation into rebuilding the Bye Street Gaol (20 March 1837), and the that land belonging to Mr Cam in Little Gaol Lane, Hereford, be purchased for £550 as a site for the new city Gaol (1 January 1838) 

Dates: undated


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


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: BP100

Collection: None

Description: Drawings and plans of Hereford gaols

Dates: undated


Images

Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: G36/A/26

Collection: None

Description: Hereford City Gaol, Gaol Street: photograph of Chief of Police

Dates: undated