Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	gaol, Appleby
	gone
locality:-	St Lawrence's Bridge
locality:-	Appleby
civil parish:-	Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	gaol
locality type:-	chapel (ex)
locality type:-	prison
coordinates:-	NY68412041
1Km square:-	NY6820
10Km square:-	NY62
evidence:-	old map:- Hill 1754
source data:-	Town plan, A Plan of Appleby in Westmorland, scale about 32 ins to 1 mile, engraved by Nathaniel Hill, 1754. "Jail"
evidence:-	old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
source data:-	Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.   goto source Page 157:-  "..." "... The assizes are now held in the town-hall, and the gaol is at the end of the bridge."
evidence:-	probably old text:- Gents Mag placename:-  County Bridewell
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.   goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1806 p.103  "[Mr. Nield's Remarks on Cumberland &c. Gaols.]" "..." "COUNTY BRIDEWELL, APPLEBY. Built, as appears by the date, 1639. Gaoler, John Atkinson, salary 12l.; no fees; 2 cells 23 feet by 8, with vaulted roofs; straw on the floor: No light or air but what is admitted by an aperture 12 inches by 4: subject to the floods. One large room upstairs, insecure. No water accessible to prisoners. Neither the act, nor clause against spiritous liquors hung up. Prison very dirty, but it appears little used. Prisoners, 24th September, 1802; 2 Inmates."
hearsay:-	Before the 17th century prisoners were kept in Appleby Castle.
	Later a chantry on the bridge became the gaol.
	A new court, gaol, and house for the governor, were built 1767. ...

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