Wirksworth House of Correction

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Alternative Names   Wirksworth Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1791

Date closed   1828

Location   Wash Green   Wirksworth

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Derbyshire

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Prison Info

Alternative Names   Wirksworth Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1791

Date closed   1828

Location   Wash Green   Wirksworth

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.0823003  Long.   -1.5652116

County   Derbyshire

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Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   51

Daily Greatest number   -   13

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   4

Daily Census   -   4

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.588
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.8
  • 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.25; 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.23
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.64; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.60; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.64; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.56; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.65

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Finance

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/11

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle: direction to supply an account of expenses issued in building, repairing, fitting and furnishing gaols and houses of correction since 1800, 23 Mar; returns and accounts relating to the County Gaol and the houses of correction at Ashbourne, Chesterfield, Tideswell and Wirksworth.

Dates: 19th century

Prisoners

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D258/17/32/12

Collection: Gell family

Description: Petition to Philip Gell and other Justices from several people confined in Wirksworth House of Correction, being unable to subsist for want of money and friends and in danger of starving

Dates: 1813

Land & Buildings

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/1

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaol presentments for want of repair (1788-1822). Includes Wirksworth House of Correction (1817). 

Dates: 1817

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