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Tewkesbury Gaol

Know Your Place 2nd Edition OS map courtesy of Ordnance Survey

Tewkesbury was the only other place in Gloucestershire to run its own gaol, although prior to 1816, it was the lower part of the belfry of the abbey church.   After an Act of 1813, the borough built a new gaol on Bredon Road, which by 1830 had 82 inmates, climbing to 235 in 1836–7; while at the census of 1841 there were just 11 inmates.  It closed in 1854, after which Tewkesbury prisoners were sent to the county gaol at Gloucester and the building became the town police station.