Orford Borough Gaol

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Alternative Names Orford Borough Gaol and Bridewell

Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol

Jurisdiction Municipality

Date opened 1813

Date closed [1844]

Location under town hall Orford

Map location in the vicinity

County Suffolk

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1843.

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Prison Info

Alternative Names Orford Borough Gaol and Bridewell

Prison Type Local Prison

Jurisdiction Municipality

Date opened 1813

Date closed [1844]

Location under town hall Orford

Map location in the vicinity
Lat. 52.086405 Long. 1.530932

County Suffolk

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1843.

Prisoner Statistics

Year 1838

Annual Confined - 1

Daily Census - 0

Year 1843

Annual Confined - 0

Daily Census - 0

Principal Primary Sources

James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.462

Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2513

Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.161), p.98

Additional Primary Sources

The Penny Cyclopedia, by G. Long, SDUK, 1842, p. 220

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