Place in the Country

Three Counties Asylum 1860-1999

Judith Pettigrew author Rory Reynolds author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Hertfordshire Press

Published:30th Sep '17

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Place in the Country cover

In the mid-1850s, the counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire set about looking for a site for a new asylum to house their 'pauper lunatics'. Two hundred acres of farmland at Stotfold on the Hertfordshire—Bedfordshire border were purchased and in March 1860 the first patients were admitted to the new Three Counties Asylum (TCA). The asylum was in operation for almost a century and a half and, as approaches to treating mental illness changed, so did TCA.

ISBN: 9781909291508

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Weight: unknown

192 pages

2nd Revised edition