Pontefract Borough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Pontefract Town Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   unknown

Date closed   [c1830]

Location   town hall, bottom of the Market Place   Pontefract

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Yorkshire

Critical Remarks

By the 1830s at least, functioned only as a lock up.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Pontefract Town Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   unknown

Date closed   [c1830]

Location   town hall, bottom of the Market Place   Pontefract

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.6916711  Long.   -1.3103839

County   Yorkshire

Critical Remarks

By the 1830s at least, functioned only as a lock up.

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.480
  • Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.168; 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.52
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.1678
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.50; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.143; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.142; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.41; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1843, XXV. & XXVI.249), p.148; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.1), p.34

Additional Primary Sources

  • Edward Baines, History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York, Volume I: West Riding (Leeds, 1822), p. 240

Management

Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: WMT/PO/10/222

Collection: Pontefract Borough

Description: Miscellaneous papers, correspondence, receipts, prisoner returns and maintenance, balance sheets

Dates: 1797-1880