Poole Town Gaol and House of Correction

Overview

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Overview

Alternative Names   Poole Town Gaol, Poole Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1798

Date closed   1878

Location   King Street (near Thames Street)   Poole

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Dorset

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Poole Town Gaol, Poole Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1798

Date closed   1878

Location   King Street (near Thames Street)   Poole

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   50.7127279  Long.   -1.9898282

County   Dorset

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   42

Daily Greatest number   -   12

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   22

Daily Greatest number   -   6

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   66

Daily Census   -   13

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   28

Daily Census   -   4

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   45

Daily Daily average   -   4

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   41

Daily Daily average   -   3

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   62

Daily Daily average   -   3

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   77

Daily Greatest number   -   9

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   53

Daily Daily average   -   2

 

Year 1873

Annual Committed   -   47

Daily Daily average   -   7

 

Year 1878

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Daily average   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.481
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.12
  • The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.17; 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.33; 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.11
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.79
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.1323
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.48; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.659), p.18; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.217), p.15; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.177), p.116; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.136; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.565), p.465; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.122; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.133), p.90; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.1), p.23; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.69), p.29; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.153), p.22; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.5), p.35; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.1), p.31; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.77; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.67; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.203), p.86; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1868-69, XXIX.1), p.58; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1870, XXXVII.1), p.60; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.241), p.72; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.1), p.44; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.1), p.84; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.1), p.97; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.1), p.105; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.1), p.105; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.1), p.107; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLI.1), p.107

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.pooletourism.com/page/ref:I483ED26E32D39/

Management

Archive name: Dorset History Centre

Catalogue ref: DC/PL/C/E/2/2

Collection: Poole Borough

Description: List of Bills for the Sheriff re the use of the Gaol, and a letter enclosing the prison diet to be conferred in the Gaol (diet list not included) (27 September, November 1847)

Dates: 1847


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Dorset History Centre

Catalogue ref: DC/PL/B/1/4/3

Collection: Poole Borough

Description: Committee minute book. Includes Committees re finance, land, railway (1874), and Prison building (1874).

Dates: 1874