Broadgate Hospital

Broadgate Hospital was a mental health facility to the east of Walkington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Broadgate Hospital
Broadgate Asylum in 1905
Shown in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Geography
LocationWalkington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Coordinates53.8271°N 0.4576°W / 53.8271; -0.4576
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypeSpecialist
Services
Emergency departmentN/A
SpecialityPsychiatric Hospital
History
Opened1871
Closed1989
Links
ListsHospitals in England

History

The hospital was located on a site previously occupied by Broadgate Farm.[1] It was designed by Charles Henry Howell using a Corridor Plan layout and opened as the East Riding County Asylum in October 1871.[2] It became the East Riding Mental Hospital in the 1920s before joining the National Health Service as Broadgate Hospital in 1948.[1]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and, once the patients had been transferred to De la Pole Hospital in Willerby,[3] Broadgate Hospital closed in April 1989.[1] The buildings have since been demolished and the site has been redeveloped by Bryant Homes as a new village known as Broadgate.[1]

References
  1. "Broadgate Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  2. "Broadgate Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  3. "Hundreds of East Riding pauper's graves are finally marked with a headstone". Yorkshire Post. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
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