Tenterden Borough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Tenterden Prison, Tenterden Borough Gaol and House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   1866

Location   High Street   Tenterden

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Kent

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Tenterden Prison, Tenterden Borough Gaol and House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   1866

Location   High Street   Tenterden

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.0679177  Long.   0.6859138

County   Kent

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   5

Daily Greatest number   -   3

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   5

Daily Greatest number   -   3

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   20

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   24

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   21

Daily Daily average   -   0

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   2

Daily Daily average   -   0

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   8

Daily Daily average   -   0

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   1

Daily Greatest number   -   1

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.24
  • 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.20
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.110
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.1068
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.24
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIII.1), p.356; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.1), p.56; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.134; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.120

Additional Primary Sources

  • Samuel Bagshaw, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Kent, Volume II (1847), p. 615.

Management

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: Te/JB/1

Collection: Tenterden Borough

Description: Minute Book, Court of Record. Contains occasional orders, such as one concerning the prisoners' living conditions (March 1819). 

Dates: 1704-1835