Freedom Fields Hospital

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Freedom Fields Hospital
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Freedom Fields Hospital
Freedom Fields Hospital
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Geography
Location Plymouth, United Kingdom
Coordinates 50°22′43″N4°07′44″W / 50.3785°N 4.1289°W / 50.3785; -4.1289 Coordinates: 50°22′43″N4°07′44″W / 50.3785°N 4.1289°W / 50.3785; -4.1289
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Care system Public NHS
Type General
History
Opened1858
Closed1998
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Freedom Fields Hospital was an acute hospital in Plymouth that closed in 1998. The site formerly occupied by the hospital has now been largely redeveloped for residential use.

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History

The facility was designed by Arthur and Dwelly as a workhouse and built on a site to the east of the junction of Longfield Place and Greenbank Road between 1852 and 1858. [1] Enlargements included a major expansion of the medical facilities between 1907 and 1910. [1] It became the Greenbank Infirmary in 1909 and the Plymouth City Hospital in 1930. [1]

The building was bombed several times in attacks on the areas surrounding Plymouth Sound during the Second World War. One young girl was killed in a ward block on the night of 13 January 1941 and, shortly after a new maternity block had been opened by Lord Astor, four nurses, nineteen babies and one mother were killed in that block on the night of 20 March 1941. [2] After it joined the National Health Service in 1948, it was renamed Freedom Fields Hospital. [1]

Renal services transferred to the new Derriford Hospital in 1982, maternity services transferred there in 1994 and the remaining services transferred in February 1998. [2] The site has now been largely redeveloped for residential use. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Plymouth". Workhouses. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 Moseley, Brian (4 April 2011). "Freedom Fields Hospital". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Archived from the original on 5 July 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2015.