Whitehaven County House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names   Whitehaven House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1808

Date closed   [1850]

Location   Queen Street, Peter Street (intersection?)   Whitehaven

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Cumberland

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1849.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Whitehaven House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1808

Date closed   [1850]

Location   Queen Street, Peter Street (intersection?)   Whitehaven

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   54.5483096  Long.   -3.5889587

County   Cumberland

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1849.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   42

Daily Greatest number   -   16

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   26

Daily Census   -   1

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   20

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   36

Daily Daily average   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.579
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.8
  • 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.13; Fourth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1822), Appendix, p.9; 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.21; 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.20
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.6
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.106; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.9; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.51; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.793), p.68

Additional Primary Sources

  • Mannix and Whellan, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland (Beverley, 1847), p. 393.