Walsingham House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names   Walsingham Gaol, Walsingham Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1787

Date closed   1861

Location   Bridewell Street   Little Walsingham

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Norfolk

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Walsingham Gaol, Walsingham Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1787

Date closed   1861

Location   Bridewell Street   Little Walsingham

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.8950664  Long.   0.8738798

County   Norfolk

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   152

Daily Greatest number   -   29

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   120

Daily Census   -   16

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   247

Daily Census   -   46

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   375

Daily Census   -   72

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   316

Daily Census   -   53

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   451

Daily Census   -   57

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   422

Daily Daily average   -   50

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   434

Daily Daily average   -   44

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   282

Daily Daily average   -   35

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.34
  • The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.60; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.100; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.110; 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.32
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.164; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.186; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.186; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.166; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.199; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.176; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.177; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.170; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.170; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.182; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.169; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.164; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.108; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.108; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.114; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.110; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.118; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.123; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.124; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.127; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.128; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.154; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.148; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.162; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.161
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.44
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.161), p.55; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.1), p.152; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.565), p.108; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.136; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.227), p.33; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland and Eastern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.1), p.34; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.34; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.163; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.1), p.73; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.1), p.44; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.385), p.52; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.1), p.85; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.1), p.80; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.229), p.76

Additional Primary Sources

  • Francis White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Norfolk (Sheffield, 1854), p. 717

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC098527

Management

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 3/16-17

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Petitions against closure of Walsingham Bridewell

Dates: 1828


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: NRS 2447, 11E2

Collection: Norfolk Record Society Manuscipts

Description: Petition of Brothercross Hundred to Quarter Session against the abolition of Walsingham Bridewell

Dates: 1828


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: NRS 2450, 11E2

Collection: Norfolk Record Society Manuscipts

Description: Petition of North Greenhoe Hundred to Quarter Session against the abolition of Little Walsingham Bridewell and enlargement of the Prison and Court House at Swaffham

Dates: 1828


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: NRS 2451, 11E2

Collection: Norfolk Record Society Manuscipts

Description: Petition of Launditch Hundred to Quarter Session against the abolition of Walsingham Bridewell

Dates: 1828


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/S 4

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Sessions minute books of administrative business, including reports of Visiting Justices, Keepers and Surgeons of County Gaol and the various Bridewells

Dates: 1799-1968


Prisoners

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MF/RO 10-12

Collection: Microfilm

Description: Microfilm of return of commitments to Little Walsingham Bridewell

Dates: 1844