The Old Castlemaine Gaol was a prison located in Castlemaine

Castlemaine, Victoria

Castlemaine is a city in Victoria, Australia, in the Goldfields region of Victoria about 120 kilometres northwest by road from Melbourne, and about 40 kilometres from the major provincial centre of Bendigo. It is the administrative and economic centre of the Shire of Mount Alexander. The...

, Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia

Australia

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. The prison was modelled on Pentonville

Pentonville (HM Prison)

HM Prison Pentonville is a Category B/C men's prison, operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Pentonville Prison is not actually within Pentonville itself, but is located further north, on the Caledonian Road in the Barnsbury area of the London Borough of Islington, in inner-North London,...

; the present building replaced the original, designed by Inspector General John Price, was never occupied. Built in 1861 to house offenders from the goldfields and nearby towns, it served various functions in the penal system before it was closed down and its prisoners transferred to HM Prison Loddon

HM Prison Loddon

HM Prison Loddon is an Australian medium security prison, located in Central Victoria, Australia, approximately four kilometres from the centre of Castlemaine and about one and a half hours from Melbourne....

 in 1990. Since, it has been used as a hotel and tourist attraction. It currently serves as the studio for local community radio station WMA FM 94.9.

The grounds were originally landscaped by renowned landscape gardener Hugh Linaker.

Executions

Name	Year of birth	Date of execution	Crime
David Young	1831	August 21, 1865
Long Poy		March 10, 1866
William H Terry		July 31, 1867
John Hogan	1815	August 14, 1868
Ah Pew		May 23, 1870
James Wilkie	1844	May 20, 1872
Samuel Wright	1813	March 11, 1873
Pierre Barbun	1841	May 20, 1873
Ah Kat		August 9, 1875
John Duffus	1820	May 22, 1876	Criminal Assault of daughter