Scarborough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Scarborough Town Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1640

Date closed   1840

Location   Newborough Gate, Newborough Old Bar   Scarborough

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Yorkshire

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Scarborough Town Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1640

Date closed   1840

Location   Newborough Gate, Newborough Old Bar   Scarborough

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   54.2826931  Long.   -0.3994502

County   Yorkshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   6

Daily Greatest number   -   5

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   4

Daily Greatest number   -   4

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -  

Daily Census   -  

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.522
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.54
  • 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.89; 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.51
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.99
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.1721
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.36

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.scarboroughjail.co.uk/castle-road/