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Hereford City Gaol
Hereford Gaol

Herefordshire Prisons

Her Majesty's Prison for Hereford and District, in Commercial Road, Hereford, erected during 1792-98, under the direction of Mr. Nash, architect, at a cost of £18,646, is enclosed within a high brick wall, with a rusticated gateway. The Prison has been much improved and considerably enlarged, and will now hold 125 prisoners from the City and County of Hereford, and from Radnorshire. It was transferred to the Government on the 1st April 1878.

Staff in 1900
Governor Benjamin Charles
Chaplain Rev. Gerald Leigh Spencer
Medical Officer Henry Vevers M.R.C.S.Eng.
Clerk to Visiting Justices Richard Moore







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