Naburn Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Naburn, North Yorkshire, England |
Coordinates | 53°55′07″N 1°04′51″W / 53.9187°N 1.0808°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Emergency department | N/A |
Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1906 |
Closed | 1988 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
Naburn Hospital was a mental health facility in Naburn, North Yorkshire, England.
Acres House, a property dating back to 1774, and its associated farmland were acquired in 1899 for the purposes of building an asylum. [1] The facility, which was designed by Alfred Creer using a compact arrow layout, opened as York Borough Asylum in April 1906. [2] After Naburn Lodge Farm was acquired in 1913, further expansion of the hospital became possible. [3] It became the York City Mental Hospital in 1927 and joined the National Health Service as Naburn Hospital in 1948. [4]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in February 1988. [2] Most of the hospital buildings were subsequently demolished and the site was redeveloped as the York Designer Outlet Centre. [5] However Acres House survives. [2]