Parc Hospital

Parc Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Parc) was a mental health facility at Bridgend in Wales.

Parc Hospital
Clocktower from Parc Hospital
Shown in Bridgend County Borough
Geography
Location	Bridgend, Wales
Coordinates	51.5320°N 3.5646°W
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Mental health
History
Opened	1886
Closed	1996
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Wales

History

Parc Gwyllt Farm and Gelliau Farm were identified in 1880 as forming a site suitable for the purposes of building an asylum.[1] The hospital, which was designed by Giles, Gough and Trollope using a compact arrow layout, opened as the Second Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum in 1886.[2] It became Parc Gwyllt County Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the National Health Service as Parc Hospital in 1948.[3]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1996.[2] The hospital was subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped as Parc Prison in 1997.[3] The old clocktower from Park Hospital has been restored and remains visible to the public on the Parc Prison site.[4]

References

1. "Parc Gwyllt Asylum: Timeline". Hello Historia. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
2. "Parc Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
3. "Parc Prison; HMP Parc; Parc Gwyllt County Mental Hospital". Coflein. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
4. "Parc Prison set for an expansion?". Bridgend Today. 8 April 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2019.

Further reading

• Saunders, Mark (1993). Parc Hospital: the Last Days. Valley and Vale. ISBN 978-0951483145.