Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened medieval
Date closed 1828
Location in the very centre of Newcastle, called Castle Garth or Castle Keep prison Newcastle Upon Tyne
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Northumberland
Used to hold prisoners awaiting trial at the Assizes until the completion of the new Gaol and House of Correction in Carliol Square (ID 111). The Castle Keep was also used to confine debtors in the interval between the demolition of the old Newcastle Newgate Gaol (ID 521) and the construction of the new Newcastle Gaol and House of Correction (ID 111).
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened medieval
Date closed 1828
Location in the very centre of Newcastle, called Castle Garth or Castle Keep prison Newcastle Upon Tyne
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 54.9687048 Long. -1.6122586
County Northumberland
Used to hold prisoners awaiting trial at the Assizes until the completion of the new Gaol and House of Correction in Carliol Square (ID 111). The Castle Keep was also used to confine debtors in the interval between the demolition of the old Newcastle Newgate Gaol (ID 521) and the construction of the new Newcastle Gaol and House of Correction (ID 111).
Archive name: Tyne and Wear Archives
Catalogue ref: QS.NC/1/8-17
Collection: Newcastle upon Tyne Quarter Sessions
Description: Order books. Highly likely to contain material on the administration of Newcastle's gaols and houses of correction
Dates: 1777-1802, 1818-1902
