Parc Hospital

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Parc Hospital
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Clocktower from Parc Hospital
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Shown in Bridgend County Borough
Geography
Location Bridgend, Wales
Coordinates 51°31′55″N3°33′53″W / 51.5320°N 3.5646°W / 51.5320; -3.5646
Organisation
Care system NHS
Type Specialist
Services
SpecialityMental health
History
Opened1886
Closed1996
Links
Lists Hospitals in Wales

Parc Hospital (Welsh : Ysbyty Parc) was a mental health facility at Bridgend in Wales.

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History

Parc Gwyllt Farm and Gelliau Farm were identified in 1880 as forming a site suitable for the purposes of building an asylum. [1] The hospital, which was designed by Giles, Gough and Trollope using a compact arrow layout, opened as the Second Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum in 1886. [2] It became Parc Gwyllt County Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the National Health Service as Parc Hospital in 1948. [3]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1996. [2] The hospital was subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped as Parc Prison in 1997. [3] The old clocktower from Park Hospital has been restored and remains visible to the public on the Parc Prison site. [4]

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References

  1. "Parc Gwyllt Asylum: Timeline". Hello Historia. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Parc Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Parc Prison; HMP Parc; Parc Gwyllt County Mental Hospital (3070)". Coflein. RCAHMW . Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  4. "Parc Prison set for an expansion?". Bridgend Today. 8 April 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2019.

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