Cheadle Royal Hospital

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Cheadle Royal Hospital
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Cheadle Royal Hospital from the air
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Shown in Greater Manchester
Geography
Location Heald Green, Greater Manchester, England
Coordinates 53°22′29″N2°13′16″W / 53.3748°N 2.2211°W / 53.3748; -2.2211
Organisation
Care system Private
Type Specialist
Services
Emergency department No
SpecialityMental Health
History
Opened1763

Cheadle Royal Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Heald Green, Greater Manchester, England, built between 1848 and 1849. The main building is Grade II listed. [1]

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History

The hospital was founded at a time when only two other similar institutions existed in England (Bethlem and St Luke's) [2] and was initially located next to the Manchester Infirmary in 1763. [3] It was designed by Richard Lane in the Elizabethan style [1] and it opened as the Manchester Lunatic Hospital in 1766. [2] It had 24 beds when it opened, but had over 100 patients by 1800. [2]

The facility relocated to Cheadle, 10 miles (16 km) to the south, as the Manchester Royal Hospital for the Insane, in 1849. [2] Voluntary patients, known as boarders, were admitted from 1863. [2] The hospital expanded through the construction of villas on the Cheadle site in the 1860s and through the acquisition of houses in Colwyn Bay in the 1870s. [2] The site in Cheadle was initially 37 acres (15 ha); in the following 80 years about 220 acres (89 ha) were added and the original part of the site subsequently became formal gardens and sport and recreation grounds. A convalescent hospital at Glan-y-Don, Colwyn Bay, was also established. [4]

The facility became Cheadle Royal Hospital in 1902 [2] and North House, with accommodation for 80 additional patients, was opened in 1903. [5] It had provision for the treatment of 400 patients in 1928 [6] but it chose to remain private rather than joining the National Health Service in 1948. [2] The hospital was acquired by its management team in 1997 and then by Priory Group in 2010. [7]

Famous patients

Famous patients have included:

See also

References

A plan of the Manchester Infirmary and Manchester Lunatic Hospital, 1845 Plan of Manchester Royal Infirmary 1845.jpg
A plan of the Manchester Infirmary and Manchester Lunatic Hospital, 1845
  1. 1 2 Historic England. "Cheadle Royal Hospital (1001337)". National Heritage List for England .
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Cheadle Royal Hospital". Manchester Medical Collection. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Cheadle Royal Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  4. ↑ The Book of Manchester and Salford; for the British Medical Association. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; pp. 146-47
  5. ↑ Brockbank, William (1952). Portrait of a Hospital. London: William Heinemann. pp. 116–164.
  6. ↑ The Book of Manchester and Salford...for the...annual meeting of the British Medical Association...1929. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; p. 146-47
  7. ↑ "Cheadle Royal sold to Priory in Affinity deal". Business Desk. 18 January 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  8. ↑ Owen, W. B. (1912). "Briggs, John"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  9. ↑ Margot Bryant at IMDb
  10. ↑ Brogan, Hugh (1984). The Life of Arthur Ransome. Jonathan Cape. p. 433.

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