Queenborough Common Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Queenborough Gaol and Bridewell

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

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [c1833]

Location   town hall   Queenborough

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Described as a lock only in 1833, and again by the prison inspectors in 1860.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Queenborough Gaol and Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [c1833]

Location   town hall   Queenborough

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.414838  Long.   0.74530333

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Described as a lock only in 1833, and again by the prison inspectors in 1860.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   3

Daily Greatest number   -   1

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   4

Daily Greatest number   -   1

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.62
  • 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.20
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.80
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.835
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.1), p.43

Management

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: Qb/JQs/1

Collection: Queensborough Borough

Description: Sessions book. Volume contains mainly orders for rates and instructions to Treasurer, orders regarding Gaol, including the painting of the Court House, and arrangements for maintenance of prisoners in the County Gaol. 

Dates: 1819-1885