Maldon Borough Gaol

Overview

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Records

Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   1866

Location   town hall (ie. Moot Hall)   Maldon

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Essex

Critical Remarks

From late 1830s, seems to have been used primarily, if not exclusively, as a lock up, but continues to be listed as a borough gaol in the penal statistics and only officially closed as a local prison in 1866

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   1866

Location   town hall (ie. Moot Hall)   Maldon

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.7320229  Long.   0.6777567

County   Essex

Critical Remarks

From late 1830s, seems to have been used primarily, if not exclusively, as a lock up, but continues to be listed as a borough gaol in the penal statistics and only officially closed as a local prison in 1866

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   18

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   23

Daily Census   -   1

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   38

Daily Daily average   -   2

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   21

Daily Daily average   -   1

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   7

Daily Daily average   -   0

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   21

Daily Greatest number   -   2

Principal Primary Sources

  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2447
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.50; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXX.1), p.234; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXI.1), p.173; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.1), p.184; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, IV.1), p.135; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIII.1), p.206; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.169), p.22; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.86; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.75