Shaftesbury Grate Borough Gaol

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Alternative Names   Shaftesbury Grate

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1838]

Location   unknown   Shaftesbury

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Dorset

Critical Remarks

Location information and dates unknown for this prison. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1837. But 1833 Return states there was no borough prison in Shaftesbury. So probably a lock up from c1830 at least.

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Prison Info

Alternative Names   Shaftesbury Grate

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1838]

Location   unknown   Shaftesbury

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   50.99722  Long.   -2.200873

County   Dorset

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Critical Remarks

Location information and dates unknown for this prison. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1837. But 1833 Return states there was no borough prison in Shaftesbury. So probably a lock up from c1830 at least.

Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.12
  • 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.100
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.1354; Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendix (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p. 114

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Land & Buildings

Archive name: Dorset History Centre

Catalogue ref: DC-SYB/D/13/7/14

Collection: Shaftesbury Borough

Description: Deeds and leases Prison / grate

Dates: 1748-1850

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