Plympton Earle Prison

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Overview

Alternative Names   Plympton Erle Borough Gaol and Lock Up

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1850]

Location   Guildhall   Plympton Earle

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Devon

Critical Remarks

By the late 1840s, used only as a lock up. Although the prison does not appears in the penal statistics for 1848, it does appear again in 1849, but not in subsequent years.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Plympton Erle Borough Gaol and Lock Up

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1850]

Location   Guildhall   Plympton Earle

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   50.385466  Long.   -4.0691069

County   Devon

Critical Remarks

By the late 1840s, used only as a lock up. Although the prison does not appears in the penal statistics for 1848, it does appear again in 1849, but not in subsequent years.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   6

Daily Census   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.10
  • Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.10
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.39
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.78
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.600
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.125; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.113; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.133), p.82; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.93), p.52