Liverpool Bridewell

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Overview

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

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1804

Date closed   {1850}

Location   nearly adjoins the town hall or sessions house (Rose Hill?)   Liverpool

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Lancashire

Critical Remarks

Although called a bridewell, this prison also functioned as (perhaps predominantly) as a lock up.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1804

Date closed   {1850}

Location   nearly adjoins the town hall or sessions house (Rose Hill?)   Liverpool

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   53.402676  Long.   -2.9941653

County   Lancashire

Critical Remarks

Although called a bridewell, this prison also functioned as (perhaps predominantly) as a lock up.

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.358
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2716
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.84; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.1), p.142; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.90; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.1), p.139; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1843, XXV. & XXVI.249), p.35; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.1), p.118; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.87; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.86; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.14