Broadgate Hospital was a mental health facility to the east of

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, England.

History

The hospital was located on a site previously occupied by Broadgate Farm. It was designed by

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using a Corridor Plan layout and opened as the East Riding County Asylum in October 1871. It became the East Riding Mental Hospital in the 1920s before joining the

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as Broadgate Hospital in 1948. After the introduction of

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in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and, once the patients had been transferred to

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in Willerby, Broadgate Hospital closed in April 1989. The buildings have since been demolished and the site has been redeveloped by

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as a new village known as

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References

{{authority control Former psychiatric hospitals in England Hospital buildings completed in 1871 Hospitals established in 1871 Hospitals disestablished in 1989 Defunct hospitals in England Hospitals in the East Riding of Yorkshire 1871 establishments in England