Alternative Names Wymondham County Bridewell, Wymondham Prison, Wymondham County House of Correction, Wymondham County Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1787/ 1832
Date closed 1825/ 1878
Location Bridewell Street Wymondham
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Norfolk
Closed in 1825 and prisoners relocated to the rebuilt county gaol at Norwich Castle (ID 51). However, reopened in 1832 as a County House of Correction for females. In 1848 part of the building was converted into a lock up for the police, with quarters for one policeman and three cells. The lock up held both men and women under arrest.
Alternative Names Wymondham County Bridewell, Wymondham Prison, Wymondham County House of Correction, Wymondham County Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1787/ 1832
Date closed 1825/ 1878
Location Bridewell Street Wymondham
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.570989 Long. 1.1172553
County Norfolk
Closed in 1825 and prisoners relocated to the rebuilt county gaol at Norwich Castle (ID 51). However, reopened in 1832 as a County House of Correction for females. In 1848 part of the building was converted into a lock up for the police, with quarters for one policeman and three cells. The lock up held both men and women under arrest.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 195
Daily Greatest number - 47
Year 1823
Annual Committed - 233
Daily Census - 30
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 104
Daily Census - 22
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 101
Daily Census - 10
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 143
Daily Census - 20
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 133
Daily Daily average - 15
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 159
Daily Greatest number - 29
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 179
Daily Daily average - 20
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 93
Daily Daily average - 10
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 21
Daily Daily average - 0
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: GTN 5/9/50
Collection: Harbord papers
Description: Correspondence. Including on treadmill at Wymondham (opinions, diagrams etc)
Dates: 1821-1823
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: C/S 5/15
Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Wymondham Magistrates' Bridewell Committee Minutes
Dates: 1832-1864
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: GTN 5/9/78
Collection: Harbord papers
Description: Philip Wodehouse, Hington, re alleged refusal to permit a Ladies' Committee to visit Wymondham Bridewell
Dates: 1832-1833
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: GTN 5/9/80
Collection: Harbord papers
Description: Letters to and from Lord Suffield (including draft replies). Copy of statement by Anne Everett (Wymondham Quaker) re refusal by Visiting Magistrates to grant Ladies Committee (including Elizabeth Fry) permission to visit women prisoners in Wymondham Bridewell to instruct them, prisoners' activities, comparison with situation at Norwich Castle prison vis à vis Chaplain, wants to check supervision of prisoners. Also, Suffield to Lord Wodehouse re Everett's statement with which Suffield agrees. Elizabeth Fry (The Cedars, Upton Lane, West Ham, Essex) re her disappointment at Magistrates' decision since ladies allowed to visit convict ships.
Dates: 1832-1833
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
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: NCC will register Code 41
Collection: None
Description: Johnson, Thomas, Governor of Wymondham Bridewell, of Wymondham
Dates: 1856
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: ACC 2003/49
Collection: Chief Superintendent Frank D. Slack's collection of records relating to policing in Norfolk and Norwich
Description: Wymondham Bridewell, charge book or lock up book
Dates: 1850-1866