Totness Prison

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Overview

Alternative Names   Totness Prison Totness Lock Up House

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1840]

Location   town hall   Totnes

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Devon

Critical Remarks

Still listed as a common gaol in the 1818 Return, though its accompanying description suggested it had more or less become a lock up, a state of affairs confirmed in 1833. The Prison Inspectors described the Totness lock up as four cells adjoining town hall, likely the former Totness Prison described in earlier sources. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1839.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Totness Prison Totness Lock Up House

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1840]

Location   town hall   Totnes

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   50.4321006  Long.   -3.6875554

County   Devon

Critical Remarks

Still listed as a common gaol in the 1818 Return, though its accompanying description suggested it had more or less become a lock up, a state of affairs confirmed in 1833. The Prison Inspectors described the Totness lock up as four cells adjoining town hall, likely the former Totness Prison described in earlier sources. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1839.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.10
  • 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.9
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.44
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.114
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.643
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.177), p.175