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Lennox Castle is an abdandoned castle in
Sean Murphy, Daily Record, 17 July 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2022 while other parts towards Lennoxtown village have become a long-term residential development to be completed in several phases, known as ''Campsie Village''.Phase 2, Campsie Village
Jones Lang Lasalle Property, 2015
Lennox Castle is an abdandoned castle in Lennoxtown
Lennoxtown ( gd, Baile na Leamhnachd, ) is a town in East Dunbartonshire council area and the historic county of Stirlingshire, Scotland at the foot of the Campsie Fells, which are just to the north. The town had a population of 4,094 at the 201 ...
, East Dunbartonshire
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, Scotland, approximately north of Glasgow
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. It is infamous for previously hosting Lennox Castle Hospital, Scotland's "largest institution for people with learning disabilities".
The castle was built between 1837 and 1841 by David Hamilton for John Lennox Kincaid, on the Lennox of Woodhead Estate, replacing Kincaid House. In 1927, the castle and its land was purchased by the Glasgow Corporation
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, and converted into a hospital for people with learning disabilities; the hospital opened in 1936. The castle itself was the nurses' home, whilst its grounds provided accommodation for about 1,200 patients. ''The Scotsman
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'' reports that soon afterwards, the facilities were "vastly overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded". In the 1980s, the care provided by the hospital was reported to be poor, with patients being malnourished. There was also a separate maternity unit in operation between the 1940s and 1960s; singer Lulu
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were among the babies born there.
This hospital was closed in 2002, as a reflection in changes to how society treated patients with learning disabilities with a view to keeping them in the community. Further it was noted that patients were treated poorly by staff.
The castle itself (Category A listed
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since the 1970s) is in ruins following a fire in 2008. Part of the grounds of the castle were converted into Celtic F.C.
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's Lennoxtown Training Centre
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Lennoxtown was designed to replace Celtic's former ...
(opened in 2007),Abandoned psychiatric hospital at Celtic's Lennoxtown training ground has a dark historySean Murphy, Daily Record, 17 July 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2022 while other parts towards Lennoxtown village have become a long-term residential development to be completed in several phases, known as ''Campsie Village''.
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See also
* List of Category A listed buildings in East Dunbartonshire * List of listed buildings in Campsie, East DunbartonshireReferences
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