Kingston Upon Thames Borough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Kingston Upon Thames Town Gaol, Kingston Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   [1264]

Date closed   1829

Location   Clarence Street   Kingston Upon Thames

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Surrey

Critical Remarks

A prison was established at Kingston by 1264, but it is not clear whether this was on the same site as the later gaol. From about 1800, probably only used for debtors.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Kingston Upon Thames Town Gaol, Kingston Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   [1264]

Date closed   1829

Location   Clarence Street   Kingston Upon Thames

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.4107891  Long.   -0.3052547

County   Surrey

Critical Remarks

A prison was established at Kingston by 1264, but it is not clear whether this was on the same site as the later gaol. From about 1800, probably only used for debtors.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   19

Daily Greatest number   -   19

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.312
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.46
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 5 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXVI.1), p.2901

Secondary Sources

  • David A. Kennedy, History of Prisons in Kingston Upon Thames, Part 1: The Stockhouse and Debtors' Prison (Privately Printed, 2004).

Management

Archive name: Kingston History Centre

Catalogue ref: KB17

Collection: Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

Description: Gaol. Dates and contents of this material are unknown.

Dates: undated


Archive name: Surrey History Centre

Catalogue ref: QS2/6/1801/EP/48

Collection: Surrey Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of a Committee appointed to consider the consolidation of the House of Correction at Kingston with the Borough Gaol

Dates: 1801