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What it's like to live in the village with a secure unit for mentally-ill criminals
Once referred to as a 'lunatic asylum', the hospital was built in 1873 and was, at its height, the second largest mental institution in Europe. Whittingham Hospital itself closed in 1995 and ...
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Former Preston psychiatric hospital building to become luxury home
North Lodge is one of three remaining properties on the former Whittingham Hospital site, off Cumeragh Lane. The distinctive former gatehouse has been left disused and decaying since the ...