Walsall Borough Gaol

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Alternative Names Walsall Town Gaol, Walsall Gaol

Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction Municipality

Date opened 17th century

Date closed 1837 [1843]

Location at town hall in High Street Walsall

Map location in the vicinity

County Staffordshire

Critical Remarks

In 1837, when the borough arranged to send prisoners to the county gaol, the borough gaol in the town hall became a lock up until its closure in 1843.

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Prison Info

Alternative Names Walsall Town Gaol, Walsall Gaol

Prison Type Local Prison

Jurisdiction Municipality

Date opened 17th century

Date closed 1837 [1843]

Location at town hall in High Street Walsall

Map location in the vicinity
Lat. 52.579812 Long. -1.9866749

County Staffordshire

Critical Remarks

In 1837, when the borough arranged to send prisoners to the county gaol, the borough gaol in the town hall became a lock up until its closure in 1843.

Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual Committed - 28

Daily Greatest number - 9

Year 1832

Annual Committed - 22

Daily Greatest number -

Principal Primary Sources

James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.570

Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.42

Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.115

Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.2047

Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.37; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.659), p.48; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.217), p.143; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.177), p.219

Additional Primary Sources

William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire (Sheffield, 1834), p. 419

Secondary Sources

http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/Walsall/early19thcentury.htm; ‘The Walsall House of Correction 1617-1940’, Staffordshire History, 22 (Autumn 1995), pp. 1-17.

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