Leominster Borough Prison

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Alternative Names   Leominster Town Gaol, Leominster Borough Prison and County Lock Up House

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   c1753

Date closed   c1840 [1888]

Location   New Street   Leominster

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Herefordshire

Critical Remarks

Officially closed in 1888 when the Borough Police Force was disbanded. By the 1840s essentially a lock up, but it is unclear when its primary function officially changes.

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Prison Info

Alternative Names   Leominster Town Gaol, Leominster Borough Prison and County Lock Up House

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   c1753

Date closed   c1840 [1888]

Location   New Street   Leominster

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.228591  Long.   -2.7410228

County   Herefordshire

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Critical Remarks

Officially closed in 1888 when the Borough Police Force was disbanded. By the 1840s essentially a lock up, but it is unclear when its primary function officially changes.

Prisoner Statistics

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.342
  • 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
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.63
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.296
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.18
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.93), p.27

Secondary Sources

  • http://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/674.aspx

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Management

Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: AN53/1

Collection: Leominster Gaol

Description: Leominster Gaol: account of maintenance of prisoners

Dates: 1863-1864

Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: BN30

Collection: None

Description: Notes on Leominster gaols

Dates: undated

Land & Buildings

Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Catalogue ref: AN53/3

Collection: Leominster Gaol

Description: Leominster Gaol: account of repairs

Dates: 1864

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