New Windsor Borough Gaol

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Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1842

Date closed   [1854]

Location   Sheet Street   Windsor

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Berkshire

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1853.

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Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1842

Date closed   [1854]

Location   Sheet Street   Windsor

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.4798253  Long.   -0.6055067

County   Berkshire

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Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1853.

Prisoner Statistics

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   112

Daily Census   -   10

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   133

Daily Daily average   -   9

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   117

Daily Daily average   -   12

Principal Primary Sources

  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIII.1), p.92; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.1), p.64; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.1), p.74

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Management

Archive name: Berkshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: WI/JQ11

Collection: Windsor Borough

Description: Includes Visiting Justices minutes for the temporary gaol at the former Windsor workhouse

Dates: 1842-1845

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