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Coldbath Fields Prison
"The Steel"
Bird's-eye view of Coldbath Fields.
Map
LocationClerkenwell, London
Coordinates51°31′31″N 0°06′46″W / 51.52528°N 0.11278°W / 51.52528; -0.11278
StatusClosed
Capacity2000
Population1700 (as of 1877)
Opened1794
Closed1885
Former nameMiddlesex House of Correction
Managed byMiddlesex Guildhall
Notable prisoners
Edward Marcus Despard, William Thomas Stead, Owen Suffolk

Coldbath Fields Prison, also formerly known as the Middlesex House of Correction and Clerkenwell Gaol and informally known as the Steel,[1] was a prison in the Mount Pleasant area of Clerkenwell, London. Founded in the reign of James I (1603–1625) it was completely rebuilt in 1794 and extended in 1850.[2] It housed prisoners on short sentences of up to two years. Blocks emerged to segregate felons, misdemeanants and vagrants.

  1. ^ A corruption of the French alike-sized Bastille in Cockney Slang. Oxford English Dictionary, "Steel, n. 2". Accessed 26 November 2013.
  2. ^ Philip Collins Dickens and crime Ch.III "The Silent System Coldbath Fields Prison"

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