Morpeth Gaol

Overview

Details

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Overview

Alternative Names   Morpeth County Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   17th century

Date closed   1828

Location   Bridge Street, extending to the Wansbeck   Morpeth

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Northumberland

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Morpeth County Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   17th century

Date closed   1828

Location   Bridge Street, extending to the Wansbeck   Morpeth

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   55.1670571  Long.   -1.6871307

County   Northumberland

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   100

Daily Greatest number   -   42

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   63

Daily Census   -   12

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   74

Daily Census   -   15

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.403
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.36
  • 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.61; Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p.86; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.106; 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.116
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.176; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.196; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.198; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.173; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.206; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.183
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.1630

Additional Primary Sources

  • William Parson & William White, History, Directory and Gazetteer of the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, Volume 1 (Leeds, 1827), p. 451; Joseph John Gurney, Notes of a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the north of England, in company with Elizabeth Fry: with some general observations on the subject of prison discipline (London, 1819), p. 12

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/WAMDocuments/1E9E1391-78BF-4477-B300-24E92B3FC2C2_1_0.pdf?nccredirect=1

Management

Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: EP/44/33

Collection: None

Description: Book of acts, including Northumberland Gaol, Houses of Correction and Sessions House

Dates: 1821


Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/S/O

Collection: Northumberland Quarter Sessions

Description: Order books. Highly likely to contain material on the administration of the county prisons

Dates: 1680-1971


Staff

Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/S/O/16, p 160

Collection: Northumberland Quarter Sessions

Description: Order Books. The chaplain of the gaol to have £40 for his year's salary, and his clerk

Dates: 1807


Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/S/O/19, p 606

Collection: Northumberland Quarter Sessions

Description: Order books. Gaoler attended execution etc.

Dates: 1822


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: QCD/45

Collection: Northumberland Quarter Sessions

Description: Morpeth Gaol title deeds

Dates: 1750-1828


Images

Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: SANT/BEQ/28/1/6/01

Collection: Papers relating to the history of Morpeth, Northumberland

Description: Pen and ink drawing by W. Creighton of the old Gaol at Morpeth

Dates: 19th century


Other

Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: SANT/BEQ/28/1/13/193

Collection: Papers relating to the history of Morpeth, Northumberland

Description: Copy letter from William Woodman about memories of old Gaol at Morpeth

Dates: 1831