Saltash Town Gaol

Overview

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Records

Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1855]

Location   old Guildhall   Saltash

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Cornwall

Critical Remarks

By the 1850s, used primarily (if not only) as a lock up. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1854.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1855]

Location   old Guildhall   Saltash

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   50.4082811  Long.   -4.2110321

County   Cornwall

Critical Remarks

By the 1850s, used primarily (if not only) as a lock up. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1854.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   1

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   2

Daily Greatest number   -   2

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   9

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   7

Daily Daily average   -   0

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   28

Daily Daily average   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.8
  • 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.6
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.27
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.97
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.607
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.177), p.194; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.62; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.565), p.54; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.56; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.133), p.38; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.93), p.13; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.669), p.122; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854, XXXIV.1), p.27; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twenty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 1, VII.401), p.67

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/csus/towns/saltash/csus_saltash_report_2005R073.pdf