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ozlady
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What was the address of this establishment in 1841, please? Was it also used as a hospital for the sick?
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Berlin-Bob
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Hi Ozlady,
try the Rossbret Institutions site
http://www.institutions.org.uk/index.html
under Asylums, England, Hereford you will find
http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/HEF/herefordshire_asylums.htm
with lots of information about the asylsum and also the address, telephone number.
(there is a web-address for the records.office there, but it is broken, try this one
http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/3584.asp )
Bob
ps. a second look shows that this was erected in 1871 and you are asking about 1841 
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Had another look.
try this site
Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals
Based on a comprehensive survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums.
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_TA.htm
and search for Hereford.
Hereford Lunatic Asylum
Licensed House at one time a Hospital.
Founded 1797 [...]
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Following the 1845 County Asylums Act, it was decided that the counties of Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Radnorshire, plus the city of Hereford, would form a union to build a joint asylum at Abergavenny. This opened 1.12.1851 "and the last patient was discharged from the Hereford asylum in January 1853, and it was demolished soon after".
Abergavenny was later overcrowded, so Hereford decided to build a new asylum, which is the one I found in my first reply here.
lots of links in the article for more reading.
Bob
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Thanks, Bob. That's a very interesting site. Lot's of background info as well.
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