Alternative Names Plymouth Borough Gaol, Plymouth Prison, HMP Plymouth
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1849
Date closed post 1900 (1930)
Location site of former Longfield House, Greenbank, near the Tavistock Road Plymouth
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Devon
Identified for closure as part of the rationalisation of prisons by the 1877 Prisons Act, but remained open.
Alternative Names Plymouth Borough Gaol, Plymouth Prison, HMP Plymouth
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1849
Date closed post 1900 (1930)
Location site of former Longfield House, Greenbank, near the Tavistock Road Plymouth
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 50.377965 Long. -4.1316706
County Devon
Identified for closure as part of the rationalisation of prisons by the 1877 Prisons Act, but remained open.
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 493
Daily Daily average - 50
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 479
Daily Daily average - 52
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 516
Daily Greatest number - 78
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 535
Daily Daily average - 62
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 441
Daily Daily average - 44
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 728
Daily Daily average - 48
Year 1883
Annual Committed - 925
Daily Daily average - 51
Year 1888
Annual Committed - 1066
Daily Daily average - 66
Year 1893
Annual Committed - 764
Daily -
Year 1898
Annual Committed - 903
Daily -
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 1/63-65
Collection: Plymouth Borough
Description: Plymouth Quarter Sessions and constitution books. Likely to contain material relevant to the administration of Plymouth prisons
Dates: 1795-1835
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 1648/200
Collection: Plymouth Reformed Corporation
Description: Special Committee report on closure of Plymouth Prison
Dates: 1878-1879
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 3040/17-18
Collection: Plymouth Prison
Description: Prison Inspectors' reports
Dates: 1892-1927
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 3040/19
Collection: Plymouth Prison
Description: Prison letter book
Dates: 1863-1878
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 126/2/22
Collection: Alfred Rooker Mayor of Plymouth
Description: Letter of Thomas Phillips to the Mayor asking him to act with Mr (David) Derry as Visiting Justices of the Gaol in January
Dates: 1851
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 3040/13-16
Collection: Plymouth Prison
Description: Prison Visiting Committee
Dates: 1878-1928
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 3040/12
Collection: Plymouth Prison
Description: Register of prison officers
Dates: Late 19th century-c.1926
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 126/2/4
Collection: Alfred Rooker Mayor of Plymouth
Description: Letter of Charles L. Lampter of 15 Summerland Place, Plymouth, to Alfred Rooker, Mayor of Plymouth, offering himself as Schoolmaster-Warder in the Borough Prison
Dates: 1851
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 126/2/9
Collection: Alfred Rooker Mayor of Plymouth
Description: Plymouth Borough Prison. Letter of George Roberts of Vennell Street, carpenter and joiner, to [the mayor], offering himself as schoolmaster warder of the Borough prison.
Dates: 1851
Archive name: Devon Heritage Centre
Catalogue ref: 5853H/A/6/1-6, 10
Collection: H.M. Prison, Exeter
Description: Nominal Registers for Plymouth Prison
Dates: 1881-1905
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 3040 1 2
Collection: Plymouth Prison
Description: Plymouth prison registers
Dates: 1867-1891
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 249
Collection: Thomas D. Plimsaul of Plymouth
Description: Plymouth Gaol, lists of prisoners (1854, 1855)
Dates: 1854-1857
Archive name: Devon Heritage Centre
Catalogue ref: QS/DP/223
Collection: Devon Quarter Sessions
Description: Plymouth Corporation Water Works proposed reservoir, main pipe. Shows part of borough of Plymouth, prison and workhouse, existing reservoir near Knockersknowle.
Dates: 1852
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 1648/200
Collection: Plymouth Reformed Corporation
Description: Prison Committee, on land adjoining Plymouth Prison
Dates: 1880