Oundle County Bridewell

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   pre 1800

Date closed   [1842]

Location   Mill Road   Oundle

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Northamptonshire

Critical Remarks

By 1841, the prison inspectors found this prison was being used almost exclusively as a county lock up. Its official function changed to that of a lock up in 1842. Although it appeared in the Digest for 1843 and 1844, it was described as a lock up house and not as a county bridewell.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   pre 1800

Date closed   [1842]

Location   Mill Road   Oundle

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.479741  Long.   -0.4765113

County   Northamptonshire

Critical Remarks

By 1841, the prison inspectors found this prison was being used almost exclusively as a county lock up. Its official function changed to that of a lock up in 1842. Although it appeared in the Digest for 1843 and 1844, it was described as a lock up house and not as a county bridewell.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.217), p.187; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.193), p.103

Additional Primary Sources

  • Christopher Alexander Markham, History of the county buildings of Northamptonshire (Taylor & Son, 1885), pp.28-29

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.oundlemuseum.org.uk/