Knaresborough Town Gaol

Overview

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Overview

Alternative Names   Knaresborough Town and Riding Lock-up House

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   pre 1800

Date closed   [1836]

Location   town hall   Knaresborough

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Yorkshire

Critical Remarks

By the time the prison inspectors visited this gaol, it had become a lock up.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Knaresborough Town and Riding Lock-up House

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   pre 1800

Date closed   [1836]

Location   town hall   Knaresborough

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   54.007841  Long.   -1.4674558

County   Yorkshire

Critical Remarks

By the time the prison inspectors visited this gaol, it had become a lock up.

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.321
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.147