Sudbury Borough Gaol

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Records

Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1828

Date closed   [1830]

Location   Gaol Lane   Sudbury

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Suffolk

Critical Remarks

By 1830, functioning only as a lock up house.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1828

Date closed   [1830]

Location   Gaol Lane   Sudbury

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.039237  Long.   0.730766

County   Suffolk

Critical Remarks

By 1830, functioning only as a lock up house.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

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.41
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.109
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.161), p.108; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.50; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.168

Additional Primary Sources

  • William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk (2nd edn, Sheffield, 1855), p. 776

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-276055-archway-of-former-gaol-sudbury-suffolk#.WHT18VOLRaQ

Prisoners

Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/24/30

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Papers, Essex C. C. to Gaoler, Sudbury, re removal of prisoner to Springfield, Essex.

Dates: 1846