Wigan Borough Gaol

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Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   16th century

Date closed   c1835 [1868]

Location   Millgate   Wigan

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Lancashire

Critical Remarks

By the 1830s, used only as a lock up. Demolished in 1868 when the police station moved to the town hall.

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Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   16th century

Date closed   c1835 [1868]

Location   Millgate   Wigan

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.5466509  Long.   -2.6303617

County   Lancashire

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Critical Remarks

By the 1830s, used only as a lock up. Demolished in 1868 when the police station moved to the town hall.

Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.26
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.118
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendix (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p. 130
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.37; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.91; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.95

Additional Primary Sources

  • Cyrus Redding, Pictorial History of the County of Lancaster (Routledge, 1844) p. 153

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.wingedwheels.info/WiganTownTrail.pdf

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Management

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 2/341

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Wigan Gaol, Lancashire, prison records (1823 October-1843 November) 

Dates: 1823-1843

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