New Romney Town Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Romney Town Gaol, New Romney Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1750

Date closed   [1833]

Location   Town Hall House, High Street   New Romney

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Described as a lock up in 1833. According to the Prison Inspectors, by the early 1860s had fallen into disuse.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Romney Town Gaol, New Romney Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1750

Date closed   [1833]

Location   Town Hall House, High Street   New Romney

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   50.9862075  Long.   0.9403075

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Described as a lock up in 1833. According to the Prison Inspectors, by the early 1860s had fallen into disuse.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   1

Daily Greatest number   -   1

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   1

Daily Census   -   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.506
  • 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
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.70
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.86
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.1), p.55

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.shepway.gov.uk/media/3028/New-Romney-Ward/pdf/New_Romney_Ward.pdf

Finance

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: P309/11/24

Collection: New Romney St Nicholas parish records

Description: Overseers' rates. Gaol of Romney Marsh. Assessments on lands of New Romney within the Liberty, and accounts. 

Dates: 1818-1841


Prisoners

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: NR/JQg1

Collection: New Romney Borough

Description: Court of Quarter Sessions. Gaol. New Romney Gaol, male and female receiving book. Gives particulars of age, occupation etc. 

Dates: 1849-1855


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: NR/TE/14

Collection: New Romney Borough

Description: Plans and specifications for proposed alterations and additions to the Gaol and Gaoler's house, with accompanying letter from George Fry, Architect and Builder 

Dates: 1856


Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: NR/J/Q/F/2/4

Collection: New Romney Borough

Description: Court of Quarter Sessions files, including plans of New Romney Gaol. 

Dates: 1824-1825


Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: NR/TE9

Collection: New Romney Borough

Description: Plans, specifications and estimates for the erection of a new Gaol, Town Hall and market place.

Dates: 1825


Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: NR/Z/23

Collection: New Romney Borough

Description: Printed Act relating to the building, repairing and enlarging of Gaols and Houses of Correction (King George)

Dates: 1824


Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: NR/TE/15

Collection: New Romney Borough

Description: Agreement with the Clerk of the Peace for Kent for letting the Gaol house for the use of the Constabulary

Dates: 1870