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Digby Hospital was a mental health facility in
Digby, Devon Digby was a hamlet on the eastern edge of the city of Exeter in Devon, England, located by Clyst Heath. Between 1886 and 1987 it was the location of Exeter Lunatic Asylum, later known as Digby Hospital. Today it is mainly an area of housing, ...
, England.


History

The site was previously occupied by Digby Farm. The hospital, which was designed by Robert Stark Wilkinson using a Linear Corridor Plan layout, opened as City of Exeter Lunatic Asylum in September 1886.
Digby and Sowton railway station Digby and Sowton railway station is on the Avocet Line in Devon, England. History A small station known as Clyst St Mary and Digby Halt was opened by the London and South Western Railway on 1 June 1908 to serve Clyst St Mary and Digby Hospit ...
, a station on the
Avocet Line The Avocet Line is the railway line in Devon, England connecting Exeter with Exmouth. It was originally built by the London and South Western Railway, and was historically known as the Exmouth branch railway. The line follows the Exe Estuary f ...
, was opened to service the hospital in 1908. The asylum became Exeter City Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the
National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ...
as Digby Hospital in 1948 before becoming known as Exe Vale Hospital (Digby Branch) in the 1970s. After the introduction of
Care in the Community Care in the Community (also called "Community Care" or "Domiciliary Care") is a British policy of deinstitutionalisation, treating and caring for physically and mentally disabled people in their homes rather than in an institution. Institutional c ...
in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1986. The main building was subsequently converted into apartments and is now known as Digby Park.


See also

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Exminster Hospital Exminster Hospital is a former mental health facility at Exminster, Devon, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The hospital, which was designed by Charles Fowler using a radial plan of the panopticon type, opened as the Devon Cou ...
(a separate branch of Exe Vale Hospital) *
Wonford House Hospital Wonford House Hospital, also previously known as the Wonford House Asylum and Exe Vale Hospital is a building built as an 'asylum for lunatics', and which has continued to provide mental health care, now being the headquarters building of the Dev ...


References

{{authority control Defunct hospitals in England Hospitals in Devon Hospital buildings completed in 1886 Hospitals established in 1886 1886 establishments in England Former psychiatric hospitals in England Hospitals disestablished in 1986 1986 disestablishments in England