Spilsby County House of Correction

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1827

Date closed   1876

Location   on high road to Louth   Spilsby

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Lincolnshire

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1827

Date closed   1876

Location   on high road to Louth   Spilsby

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   53.172703  Long.   0.09309577

County   Lincolnshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   171

Daily Census   -   34

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   262

Daily Census   -   43

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   185

Daily Census   -   26

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   357

Daily Census   -   47

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   434

Daily Daily average   -   57

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   254

Daily Daily average   -   55

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   262

Daily Daily average   -   96

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   271

Daily Greatest number   -   57

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   260

Daily Daily average   -   51

 

Year 1873

Annual Committed   -   211

Daily Daily average   -   28

Principal Primary Sources

  • 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.24
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.163; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.148; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.149; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.142; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.139; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.151; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.142; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.139; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.90; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.94; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.96; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.91; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.102; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.106; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.106; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.109; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.109; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.132; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.121; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.137; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.140
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.32
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.1), p.60; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.565), p.34; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.117; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.227), p.78; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland and Eastern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.1), p.17; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.127; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.100; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.1), p.59; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.1), p.36; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.385), p.46; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 1, VII.313), p.38; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 2, XXIII.1), p.36; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.1), p.67; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.1), p.65; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.45), p.68; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.93), p.68; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.109), p.72; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Twenty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.89), p.36; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.233), p.68; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.1), p.57; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.1), p.46; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.529), p.63; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.169), p.36; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.337), p.63; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.389), p.83; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.417), p.86; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.417), p.86; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.421), p.86

Additional Primary Sources

  • John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England, 1870-72, http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13650; William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire (Sheffield, 1856), p. 789

Prisoners

Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: CoC/14/5

Collection: Lincolnshire County Committee (Gaol Sessions)

Description: Register of prisoners in Spilsby Gaol

Dates: 1846-1861


Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: HQS/B/5/8

Collection: Holland Quarter Sessions

Description: Register of education and religion of prisoners, Spilsby House of Correction

Dates: 1870-1874


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM2/400

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Discharge register

Dates: 1826-1848


Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: MON 21/6/1

Collection: None

Description: A return of prisoners committed to the House of Correction at Spilsby

Dates: 1866-1867


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: 5-ANC/5/A/6/6

Collection: None

Description: Plan of the parish of Spilsby, including watercolour views of the church and House of Correction 

Dates: 1825


Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: 5-ANC/7/A/5/3

Collection: None

Description: Copy bargain and sale, plot of land as the site for a Prison, Spilsby

Dates: 1834?


Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: ANC7/23/10-11

Collection: None

Description: Estate papers and letters include references to Spilsby as the place for a new House of Correction

Dates: 1823


Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: LQS/B/5

Collection: Lindsey Quarter Sessions

Description: Treadmill plan

Dates: 1849


Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: LQS/B/5

Collection: Lindsey Quarter Sessions

Description: Draft conveyance of site for prison, specifications, fire insurance, letters regarding proposed work, report on state of buildings, inventory, plans (including alterations)

Dates: 1824-1868


Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: LQS/B/5

Collection: Lindsey Quarter Sessions

Description: Plans and elevations (site, buildings, alterations, etc)

Dates: 1824-1868


Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: MISC DEP 251/2

Collection: None

Description: Plan of Spilsby Prison

Dates: Undated


Archive name: Lincolnshire Archives

Catalogue ref: MON 25/13/2/8/4-50

Collection: None

Description: Papers regarding the land needed for Spilsby Prison

Dates: 1878