St George's Hospital
St George's Hospital
Shown in Northumberland
Geography
Location	Morpeth, Northumberland, England
Coordinates	55°10′34″N 1°41′02″W / 55.1762°N 1.6838°W / 55.1762; -1.6838
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Mental health
History
Opened	1859
Closed	2006
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

St George's Hospital was a mental health facility in Morpeth, Northumberland.

History

The facility was designed by Henry Welch, the County Surveyor of Northumberland, using a corridor plan layout and opened as the Northumberland County Pauper Lunatic Asylum on 16 March 1859.^[1] It was extended in the 1880s and three villas were added in the 1890s, before it was renamed St George's Hospital in the 1930s.^[1] A German Luftwaffe bomber crash landed in the hospital grounds in 1942 during the Second World War^[2] and the hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948.^[3]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 2006.^[1] Many of the old buildings have been demolished and the site has been developed for residential use as "Saint George".^[4]

Meanwhile, a small modern health facility, which was named St George's Park was built slightly to the north of the old hospital.^[1]

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