Alternative Names Newport Bridewell, Newport County House of Correction
Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell, Lock Up
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1775
Date closed [1848]
Location high road in Newport Newport
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Essex
The prison was converted into a police station by at least 1848.
Alternative Names Newport Bridewell, Newport County House of Correction
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1775
Date closed [1848]
Location high road in Newport Newport
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.9830112 Long. 0.2136497
County Essex
The prison was converted into a police station by at least 1848.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 146
Daily Greatest number - 45
Year 1823
Annual Committed - 63
Daily Census - 4
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 26
Daily Census - 1
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 33
Daily Census - 6
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 59
Daily Census - 5
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/CR 4/1-3
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Returns. Of expenses of prisons and houses of correction (1815-1838); of chaplains of prisons (salaries and duties) (1832); of the number of prisoners in the gaols and houses of correction (1830-1849)
Dates: 1815-1849
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: D/B 2/QSS5/57
Collection: Saffron Walden Borough
Description: Letter from mayor to county Quarter Sessions, seeking permission to send prisoners to House of Correction at Newport (until a new gaol is available in Saffron Walden)
Dates: 1838
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/ACM 1-9
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: General Committee minutes. Include reports of the Gaol Committee and much relevant material on the administration of the county gaols and houses of correction (including improvements, staffing, labour)
Dates: 1796-1897
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/ACp 2
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Reports of committees as to Gaols (including additional Gaol) and Houses of Correction
Dates: 1819-1828
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/ACp 2A
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Papers re Constabulary Committee. Includes correspondence and drafts concerning proposed closing of Houses of Correction at Newport and Halstead (1841).
Dates: 1840-1842
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/AGp 15
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Examinations on prison discipline by Quarter Sessions gaol committee. Including evidence of Officers of Gaols and Houses of Correction on such matters as staffing, salaries, living conditions, cost, feeding arrangements, employment of prisoners, exercise, and effect of sentences, with analysis and statistics.
Dates: 1841-1844
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SBb 378 onwards
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Quarter Sessions bundles include individually catalogued reports of the Keepers, Chaplains, Surgeons and Visiting Justices of the County's Gaols, including Colchester and Newport Houses of Correction, the Gaol, House of Correction and Convict Gaol at Chelmsford, Ilford House of Correction, and Springfield Gaol. The records also include accounts, staff appointments and dismissals, dietaries and labour accounts, and correspondence on prison conditions and prisoners. Up to mid 1840s, contents described in great detail.
Dates: 1800 onwards
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/FAC 5/1-15
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: County Treasurers' Special Accounts: Gaols and Houses of Correction
Dates: 1767-1849
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/ALl 9
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Includes return to Government of number of criminal lunatics in Gaol and five Houses of Correction, with original returns from Gaol etc (1808). Copy of lists of lunatics in the Gaol and Houses of Correction within the previous 10 years, giving names, ages, crimes, and observations (1819).
Dates: 1808-1841
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/AGb 7
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Plans of proposed alterations to Newport House of Correction
Dates: 1819
