Alternative Names Norwich Prison, HMP Norwich
Prison Type Local Prison - Prison
Jurisdiction Local
Date opened 1887
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Mousehold Heath, Knox Road Norwich
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Norfolk
Alternative Names Norwich Prison, HMP Norwich
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Local
Date opened 1887
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Mousehold Heath, Knox Road Norwich
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.6367 Long. 1.3179
County Norfolk
Year 1888
Annual Committed - 1465
Daily Daily average - 114
Year 1893
Annual Committed - 1277
Daily -
Year 1898
Annual Committed - 1318
Daily -
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: HMP 14/1
Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich
Description: Visitors' book
Dates: 1898-1989
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: HMP 12/1
Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich
Description: Prison Inspector's and Director's minute books
Dates: 1881-1939
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: HMP 33/2-4
Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich
Description: Copies of Prison Commission circulars and memoranda
Dates: 1886-1897
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: HMP 37/1
Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich
Description: Books of reference: Acts of Parliament and Statutory Rules and Orders
Dates: 1884-1933
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: HMP 11/1
Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich
Description: Chairman of Visiting Committee's papers
Dates: 1863, 1882-1910
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: C/PO 1/40-42
Collection: Norfolk County Constabulary
Description: Receipts issued by Norwich Prison to Loddon Constables for prisoners and their belongings delivered
Dates: 1891-1901
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: HMP 25/1
Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich
Description: Governor's papers
Dates: 1889-1930
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: HMP 16/1
Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich
Description: Registers of Officers
Dates: 1882-1906
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: C/S/5/17-18
Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Volumes of accounts of salaries paid to Chaplains, Surgeons and Gaolers etc. and of bills examined and posted 'by the Committee appointed for the purpose'.
Dates: 1866-1891
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: HMP 1/5, 8-10
Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich
Description: Nominal registers of prisoners
Dates: 1887-1907
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: HMP 2/2
Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich
Description: Indexes to nominal registers of prisoners
Dates: 1887-1898
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: HMP 20/1
Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich
Description: Record of prisoners' petitions
Dates: 1894-1960
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: MC 160/23, 626 x 9
Collection: Martin, Sapey, Ellis and Robinson families collection of papers
Description: Letter to his parents from W. F. Mitchell, in Mousehold Prison, Norwich, after attacking his wife with a knife and also injuring his son. Refers to T. L. Sapey as Pastor at Claxton.
Dates: 1897
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: N/EN/24/16
Collection: Norwich City Council
Description: Thorpe Hamlet, Plumstead Road. Henry Newman. Plan of proposed new approach road to Prison by extension of Mill Road.
Dates: 1887