Alternative Names Leeds Borough Gaol, Leeds Prison, HMP Leeds, Armley Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1847
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Gloucester Terrace in Armley area of Leeds Leeds
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Yorkshire
Alternative Names Leeds Borough Gaol, Leeds Prison, HMP Leeds, Armley Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1847
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Gloucester Terrace in Armley area of Leeds Leeds
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 53.7961618 Long. -1.5754417
County Yorkshire
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 1220
Daily Daily average - 157
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 1603
Daily Daily average - 263
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 1883
Daily Daily average - 255
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 2417
Daily Greatest number - 352
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 2865
Daily Daily average - 362
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 2848
Daily Daily average - 354
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 4080
Daily Daily average - 513
Year 1883
Annual Committed - 5083
Daily Daily average - 492
Year 1888
Annual Committed - 4575
Daily Daily average - 419
Year 1893
Annual Committed - 5085
Daily -
Year 1898
Annual Committed - 6438
Daily -
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds
Catalogue ref: LLC3/1/1-2
Collection: Leeds Corporation and County Borough Council
Description: New Gaol Committee minute books
Dates: 1837-1847
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds
Catalogue ref: LLD1/1/A8777
Collection: Leeds Corporation and County Borough Council
Description: Agreements, contracts etc for Leeds New Gaol
Dates: 1839-1846
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds
Catalogue ref: P36/C/3/3
Collection: Leeds Petty Sessions and Magistrates Court
Description: Minutes of Justices' meetings, including regarding Gaol
Dates: 1871-1872
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds
Catalogue ref: P36/C/4/3
Collection: Leeds Petty Sessions and Magistrates Court
Description: Minutes of meetings, including Visiting Justices of Leeds Prison
Dates: 1876-1885
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds
Catalogue ref: LLD3/1/2648
Collection: Leeds Corporation and County Borough Council
Description: Various accounts and papers for Treasurers' Department, Leeds Borough Gaol
Dates: c.1879
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: HO23/9
Collection: Home Office
Description: Registers of Prisoners from national prisons lodged in County Prisons, Leeds
Dates: 1848-1864
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: C187/3/2/1
Collection: Leeds Prison, Armley
Description: Nominal register
Dates: 1851-1853
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: WYP/LE/A137/292
Collection: Leeds City Police
Description: Registers of prisoners to be tried at the Assizes
Dates: 1842-1890
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: WYP/LE/A137/293
Collection: Leeds City Police
Description: Registers of prisoners to be tried at Quarter Sessions
Dates: 1861-1885
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: WYP/LE/A83/119
Collection: Leeds City Police
Description: Register of prisoners, with photographs
Dates: 1896-1899
Archive name: Sheffield City Archives
Catalogue ref: MD 5021
Collection: Records of Charles Peace
Description: Letter from Charles Peace, Sheffield murderer, to 'my poor Sue', from Leeds Prison
Dates: 1879
Archive name: Sheffield City Archives
Catalogue ref: MD 7297
Collection: Records of Charles Peace
Description: Letter written from Charlie Peace to Reverend J. H. Littlewood, Sunday School Master, four days before Peace's execution at Armley Gaol, Leeds.
Dates: 1879
Archive name: Sheffield City Archives
Catalogue ref: X144
Collection: Records of Charles Peace
Description: Legal records of Charles Peace, including last will and testament
Dates: c.1870s
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: C187/3/3/1
Collection: Leeds Prison, Armley
Description: Orders for remission of sentence
Dates: 1879-1926
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: C187/1/11/1-2
Collection: Leeds Prison, Armley
Description: Buildings. Elevations of Leeds Gaol, interior and exterior
Dates: 1844
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: C187/1/11/3
Collection: Leeds Prison, Armley
Description: Treadwheel house
Dates: 1881
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: C187/1/12/2
Collection: Leeds Prison, Armley
Description: Drawing of men on treadmill
Dates: undated
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: C187/1/12/3
Collection: Leeds Prison, Armley
Description: Drawing of boys in workhouse
Dates: undated
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: C187/1/12/4
Collection: Leeds Prison, Armley
Description: Drawing of man in cell with guards
Dates: 1896
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Catalogue ref: C187/1/12/5
Collection: Leeds Prison, Armley
Description: Drawing of arriving prisoners in a wagon
Dates: 1896