Newcastle Under Lyme Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Newcastle Workhouse Prison, Newcastle Under Lyme Borough Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1802

Date closed   1866

Location   at the workhouse in Deansgate   Newcastle-under-Lyme

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Staffordshire

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Newcastle Workhouse Prison, Newcastle Under Lyme Borough Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1802

Date closed   1866

Location   at the workhouse in Deansgate   Newcastle-under-Lyme

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.0073667  Long.   -2.2388312

County   Staffordshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   28

Daily Greatest number   -   3

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   115

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   14

Daily Greatest number   -   21

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.42
  • 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.40
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.98
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.70
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.1955

Additional Primary Sources

  • William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire (Sheffield, 1834), p. 662, William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire (2nd edn, Sheffield, 1851), p. 305

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol8/pp39-42

Management

Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/SB 1836 TA/3-4

Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Letters, including a discussion of whether Newcastle-under-Lyme should establish separate Quarter Sessions and provision for its prisoners

Dates: 1836