• Reference
    LB
  • Title
    Lunacy - Bedfordshire Asylum, Ampthill Road, Bedford
  • Date free text
    1812-1860
  • Production date
    From: 1812 To: 1860
  • Admin/biog history
    Asylum for Bedfordshire opened on the 27 April 1812. Following the completion of the new Three Counties Hospital at Stotfold in 1860 patients were transferred from the Bedford Asylum. The redundant site at Ampthill Road, Bedford, was sold off for building land and the Asylum pulled down.
  • Additional deposit, received from Fairfield Hospital, Stotfold, March 1977, accession number 4291
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • A Proper House - Bedford Lunatic Asylum: 1812-1860
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