Maidstone County Bridewell

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Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Maidstone House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1776

Date closed   c1821

Location   south side of East Lane (King's Street)   Maidstone

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Likely closed with the establishment of the Maidstone County Gaol and House of Correction (ID 35) in 1819. Probably next to the Maidstone County Gaol (ID 398).

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Maidstone House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1776

Date closed   c1821

Location   south side of East Lane (King's Street)   Maidstone

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.2740152  Long.   0.5239773

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Likely closed with the establishment of the Maidstone County Gaol and House of Correction (ID 35) in 1819. Probably next to the Maidstone County Gaol (ID 398).

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   384

Daily Greatest number   -   123

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.378
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.22

Secondary Sources

  • http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-459-1/dissemination/pdf/Maidstone.pdf

Management

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: Q/SBw/10

Collection: Kent Quarter Sessions

Description: West Kent Sessions papers including: Minutes of joint Committee regarding the gaols.

Dates: 1802


Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: U1515/OQ/A8D

Collection: Romney of the Mote Manuscripts

Description: Proposals for woollen manufacture in County Bridewell

Dates: 1812


Prisoners

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: U1776/O6

Collection: Hussey Manuscripts Additional

Description: Mainly printed notices, including statement of number of prisoners, Kent Gaol and Bridewell

Dates: 1813


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: Q/RZ/1

Collection: Kent Quarter Sessions

Description: Enrolment book, including sale of Debtors' Gaol, Keeper's dwelling house, Bridewell and Felons' Gaol in King Street, Maidstone (1820) (with plan)

Dates: 1811-1861


Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: U1515/P16

Collection: Romney of the Mote Manuscripts

Description: Plans of the Old County Gaols and Bridewell in King Street, Maidstone (printed)

Dates: 1819