New Romney Town Gaol

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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.

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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

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