Southwold Borough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Southwold Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1711 [1819]

Date closed   [1830]

Location   on seaward side of Market Place   Southwold

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Suffolk

Critical Remarks

Rebuilt in 1819. By 1830 functioning only as a lock up house.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Southwold Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1711 [1819]

Date closed   [1830]

Location   on seaward side of Market Place   Southwold

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.3261432  Long.   1.6793825

County   Suffolk

Critical Remarks

Rebuilt in 1819. By 1830 functioning only as a lock up house.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   2

Daily Greatest number   -   2

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   7

Daily Greatest number   -   2

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.44
  • 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.41
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.99
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.104
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2518
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.161), p.98

Additional Primary Sources

  • The Penny Cyclopedia, by G. Long, SDUK, 1842, p. 220; William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk (2nd edn, Sheffield, 1855), p. 329

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.southwold.info/the-market.html