Spalding County House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names   Spalding Bridewell, Spalding Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1619

Date closed   1826

Location   Broad Street   Spalding

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Lincolnshire

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Spalding Bridewell, Spalding Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1619

Date closed   1826

Location   Broad Street   Spalding

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.7878013  Long.   -0.1499706

County   Lincolnshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   133

Daily Greatest number   -   34

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   138

Daily Census   -   38

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.536
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.28
  • [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.50; 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.45; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.72; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.82
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.156; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.164; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.162; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.149

Secondary Sources

  • Leveritt & Elsden, Aspects of Spalding, 1790-1930 (1986), pp. 59-60

Management

Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: HQS/B/5/13

Collection: Holland Quarter Sessions

Description: Returns, Spalding House of Correction

Dates: 1819, 1821


Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: LQS/B/5

Collection: Lindsey Quarter Sessions

Description: Correspondence (Spalding)

Dates: 1824