Rye Borough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Rye Town Gaol, Rye Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   late 15th century

Date closed   [1866]

Location   not far from the cliffs, called Ypres Tower   Rye

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Sussex

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Rye Town Gaol, Rye Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   late 15th century

Date closed   [1866]

Location   not far from the cliffs, called Ypres Tower   Rye

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   50.949959  Long.   0.733502

County   Sussex

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   3

Daily Greatest number   -   3

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   11

Daily Census   -   2

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   73

Daily Census   -   2

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   52

Daily Daily average   -   0

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   24

Daily Daily average   -   0

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   38

Daily Daily average   -   4

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   38

Daily Greatest number   -   12

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.510
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.48
  • 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.44
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.88
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.1036
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.62
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIII.1), p.666; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.169), p.41; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.5), p.84; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.1), p.83; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.234; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.209