Windsor Borough Gaol

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Alternative Names   New Windsor Common Gaol and House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   late 18th century

Date closed   1842

Location   unknown   Windsor

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Berkshire

Critical Remarks

Opened late 18th century, exact date unknown (preceding town gaol located in the Castle). Closed in 1842 as a result of a typhus outbreak. Prisoners moved to the new Borough Gaol in Sheet Street (ID 334).

Prison Info

Alternative Names   New Windsor Common Gaol and House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   late 18th century

Date closed   1842

Location   unknown   Windsor

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.474827  Long.   -0.6191318

County   Berkshire

Critical Remarks

Opened late 18th century, exact date unknown (preceding town gaol located in the Castle). Closed in 1842 as a result of a typhus outbreak. Prisoners moved to the new Borough Gaol in Sheet Street (ID 334).

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   24

Daily Greatest number   -   14

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   20

Daily Census   -   20

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   22

Daily Greatest number   -   10

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -  

Daily Census   -  

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.2
  • 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.2
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.7
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.119
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 5 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXVI.1), p.2935
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.41; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXX.1), p.189; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXI.1), p.98; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.1), p.57; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, IV.1), p.48; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIII.1), p.92

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp56-66