Question - Denbigh asylum / north wales hospital

[Joshrowlands]

Most aslyums I’ve researched have had mass unmarked graves. As Denbigh was one of it not the biggest in wales for a long time I was wondering is this the case with denbigh?

 

[tumbles]

Not aware of any burial site at NWH but by no means impossible that they did. Mid Wales has around 1500 burried around the back of the chapel and under the overflow car park next to wards 7/8.

 

[Joshrowlands]

Not aware of any burial site at NWH but by no means impossible that they did. Mid Wales has around 1500 burried around the back of the chapel and under the overflow car park next to wards 7/8.

Quite insane that this many people got buried unmarked. Another question you might be able to answer, did NWH ever have any operating theaters inside?

 

[Yorrick]

In 2007 The Clwyd-Powys Archaelogical Trust conducted an archaeological assessment on the Former North Wales Hospital. Their sources included the Denbighshire records office where over 16,000 patient records are kept.

They concluded that -

“The chapel was probably never consecrated and does not have a graveyard. Originally, patients were buried at Llanfarchell and from the 1880s at Denbigh town cemetery.”

 

[Joshrowlands]

Very

In 2007 The Clwyd-Powys Archaelogical Trust conducted an archaeological assessment on the Former North Wales Hospital. Their sources included the Denbighshire records office where over 16,000 patient records are kept.

They concluded that -

“The chapel was probably never consecrated and does not have a graveyard. Originally, patients were buried at Llanfarchell and from the 1880s at Denbigh town cemetery.”

Very interesting so paitents would of been transported from the morgue.

 

[Joshrowlands]

Done some very interesting research on this place today and read the full archeological assesment. In the later years of Denbigh mental (the north wales hospital years) what sort of patients would of been treated like what illnesses? Did it ever have operating theaters? And did it have an ECT dept?