A Place in the Country: Three Counties Asylum 1860-1999

by Rory Reynolds, Judith Pettigrew, Sandra Rouse

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1909291501
• ISBN13: 9781909291508
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Hertfordshire Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"