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Caernarfon Union Workhouse

The Caernarfon Poor Law Union was officially declared 5th May 1837, the Workhouse was then erected at The Park, Caernarfon.

By 1861 the Union covered 97,635 acres and had a population of 32,425.

Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867
With Name of the Workhouse and numbers of 
insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates
  MALE FEMALE TOTAL
Carnarvon 1 2 3
Source: From PP 1867/68 Vol XXXI pp 255
Twenty Second Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

Became Eryri Hospital, and from 1928 to 1948 as Bodfan Mental Home.
 

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Managed by the Caernarfon and Anglesey Hospital Management Committee from 1948 NHS Act.

Following reorganisation in 1974 became Gwynedd District Health Authority, and then North West Wales NHS Trust from 1999

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