Copy of plan number 2 showing the ground plan and north front elevation of the former 'City of Exeter Lunatic Asylum', later Digby Hospital

Date:
1 Jun 1987
Location:
Digby Hospital, Woodwater Lane, Exeter, Devon
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City of Exeter Lunatic Asylum, Exeter, Devon
Exeter City Mental Hospital, Exeter, Devon
Exe Vale Hospital, Digby Branch, Woodwater Lane, Exeter, Devon
Reference:
BB98/06754
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The 'City of Exeter Lunatic Asylum', or 'Exeter Lunatic Asylum', opened in 1886. In the 1920s it was renamed 'Exeter City Mental Hospital', before becoming Digby Hospital in 1948. From the 1970s the hospital was known as Exe Vale Hospital (Digby Branch). It closed in 1986.

Content

This is part of the Job: 87/00525 Digby Hospital; within the Volume: BF060100 Digby Hospital, Woodwater Lane, Exeter; within the Series: RCH01/008 Hospitals Project; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) Archive

Rights

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Curator: Birks, David

Photographer: Payne, Patricia