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Salop & Montgomery Lunatic Asylum
The Counties Lunatic Asylum for Salop and Montgomery at Bicton Heath, near
Shrewsbury, is a building in the Elizabethan style, and was opened in 1845,
since which considerable additions have been made up to the year 1884, at a
total cost of £158,000, and the Asylum will now hold 800 patients.
The additions comprise a wing at each side, laundry, dining hall, workshops,
mortuary chapel and a lodge, from designs by the late Mr. Thomas Groves, erected
at a cost of over £70,000. 35 acres, well cultivated, are attached to the
building.
| Arthur Strange M.D. |
Medical Superintendent |
| Alan Rigden L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., |
Assistant Medical Officer |
| Henry Beveridge Smith M.B., C.M. |
Assisstant Medical Officer |
| Rev. John Thomas Burton Wollaston |
Chaplain |
| William Baxter |
Clerk to the Visiting Justices |
| William Johnson |
Clerk to the Asylum |
Records
The Shropshire Records and Research Centre,
Castle Gates,
Shrewsbury SY1 2AQ
Telephone: +44 (0)1743 255350
http://www.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/research.nsf
Page updated August 06, 2007
by Rossbret
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Shropshire Asylums