Lydd Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Lydd Town Gaol

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

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1792

Date closed   [c1830]

Location   under town hall   Lydd

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

By the 1830s, used only as a lock up.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Lydd Town Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1792

Date closed   [c1830]

Location   under town hall   Lydd

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   50.943338  Long.   0.90250429

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

By the 1830s, used only as a lock up.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

 

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.362
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.24
  • 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.20
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.67
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.1014