Marlborough County House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names Marlborough County Bridewell and Town Gaol, Marlborough Bridewell, Marlborough County Bridewell

Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction County

Date opened 1786

Date closed [1854]

Location Bridewell Street Marlborough

Map location exact or closely approximate

County Wiltshire

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1853.

Prison Info

Alternative Names Marlborough County Bridewell and Town Gaol, Marlborough Bridewell, Marlborough County Bridewell

Prison Type Local Prison

Jurisdiction County

Date opened 1786

Date closed [1854]

Location Bridewell Street Marlborough

Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.4173578 Long. -1.7351065

County Wiltshire

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1853.

Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual Committed - 76

Daily Greatest number - 56

Year 1824

Annual Committed - 93

Daily Census - 5

Year 1828

Annual Committed - 81

Daily Census - 7

Year 1833

Annual Committed - 112

Daily Census - 11

Year 1838

Annual Confined - 280

Daily Census - 43

Year 1843

Annual Confined - 312

Daily Census - 34

Year 1848

Annual Confined - 268

Daily Daily average - 26

Year 1853

Annual Confined - 230

Daily Daily average - 20

Principal Primary Sources

James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.385

Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.50

[Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.42; The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.82; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.157; 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.46

Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.296; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.284; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.260; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.295; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.264; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.263; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.259; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.259; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.285; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.272; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.258; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.174; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.175; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.176; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.173; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.190; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.202; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.206; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.205; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.198; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.235; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.243; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.246; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.252

Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendix (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p. 102

Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.66

Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.659), p.14; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.217), p.119; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.193), p.150; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.464; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.565), p.438; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.484; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.133), p.218

Secondary Sources

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol5/pp170-194

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Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/505/1

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaol Committee minutes. Committee appointed to examine the state and condition of the County Gaols and Houses of Correction. Questions asked of the Gaolers at Devizes, Marlborough and Fisherton Anger as to the Prison buildings and the food, clothing, linen allowances, health and hygiene of the prisoners. All were reported as 'insufficient, incomplete and insecure', and the construction of a new Bridewell at Devizes and extensive alterations at Marlborough and Fisherton Anger were recommended.

Dates: 1807-1809

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D1571/X48

Collection: Sotheron-Estcourt family of Shipton Moyne

Description: Draft reports (1824-1825), including abstracts of accounts of County Gaol at Fisherton Anger, Marlborough and Devizes Bridewells, and Salisbury Gaol (1823-1824).

Dates: 1823-1825

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: G22/1/314

Collection: Marlborough Borough Council

Description: Letters from Secretary of State and returns concerning prisoners, aliens, census of population, and madhouses

Dates: 1801-1819

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/512

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Draft general reports to the Secretary of State under George IV (1823). From the Justices, based on the reports of the Chaplains, Visiting Justices and Keepers at Devizes, Marlborough and Fisherton Anger

Dates: 1824-1857

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/507/1

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Copy report of the Visiting Justices, Chaplains, Magistrates and Surgeons concerning the number of prisoners, their health and condition and officers' salaries at Devizes, Marlborough and Fisherton Anger

Dates: 1824-1839

Staff

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/514/3

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Rate of Officers' salaries at Devizes, Marlborough and Fisherton Anger.

Dates: 1843-1850

Prisoners

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: 315/109

Collection: Records of the Crowdy family

Description: Letter from a prisoner in Marlborough Gaol pleading for help and expressing the hope that Mr Crowdy will not press the case

Dates: 1829

Land & Buildings

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: 871/106

Collection: None

Description: Account book. Included at the back is a sketch plan showing the relative positions of the Bridewell, Workhouse, Workhouse yard and garden.

Dates: 1826-1924

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/509/17

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Contract for alteration and repairs at the Marlborough Bridewell, W. Reason, Builder. With plan and bond for performance.

Dates: 1818

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/587/12

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Fire insurance for buildings, including Old Bridewell, now Devizes Police Station, Prisons in Devizes and Fisherton in Salisbury, Old Bridewell in Marlborough

Dates: 1870

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/587/4, 8

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: County Surveyors's report, Bridewell, Marlborough

Dates: 1850-1861

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/592/7

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Marlborough Police station, building contract and plan to convert old Bridewell into a Police station

Dates: 1851-1854

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