Report - North Wales Hospital, Denbigh - Feb 2019

[oleo.21]

Hiya, this is my first post, so it may not be the best but thought I'd write up about my Denbigh visit! Visited with @Chloe Explores


HISTORY
North Wales Hospital is a Grade II* listed building in Denbighshire, Wales. It was built between 1844 and 1848 and housed 1500 patients, before closing in 2002.


THE EXPLORE
This was our final explore of our weekend trip in North Wales. Definitely the perfect way to wrap it up.
With the recent security takeover, we weren't expecting to spend any longer than 5 minutes here, let alone even get inside. Arriving on a Sunday morning about 9am, we scouted around the outside of the site, with one man in his car slowing down to tell us not to go in because they have 24 hour security. We looked around the back and contemplated going through the back fields, but weren't sure if we could see any vehicles round there, so we headed for the front of the building and ended up going in via what was probably the most bait way possible. Once on site, we stayed low to see if we could spot or hear any security around, before dashing through a gap in the fence and running through an open doorway. And with that, we were in. Considering we had were 100% sure we would get caught, we actually ended up spending about 5 hours exploring until we decided we'd seen enough and left. Honestly, was such a calm explore, we had the entire place to ourselves. Things may be different now, but I think we were just extremely lucky with out timing.


PHOTOS:

The grand entrance

This area was pretty stripped out and looked like a building site.

View of the country side.

Old canteen I believe? In a terrible state.

Lovely

The upstairs that was no more

Front of the building

 

[HughieD]

The old girl is looking a bit tired these days. Not much left inside. More about the facade. You make it look OK though.

 

[Chloe Explores]

Nicely done! Was a good explore!

 

[Lord Oort]

Best pics Ive seen from there for a while.

 

[Yorrick]

Best pics Ive seen from there for a while.

Agreed. One small niggle though

Denbigh Mental

Despite what Wiki used to say, it was never called this, either officially or by the locals. It was officially and over the years North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Five Counties Mental Hospital, North Wales Counties Mental Hospital, North Wales Mental Hospital and finally North Wales Hospital. Locally it was just "The Hospital" or "Yr Ysbyty".

 

[tumbles]

Agreed. One small niggle though



Despite what Wiki used to say, it was never called this, either officially or by the locals. It was officially and over the years North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Five Counties Mental Hospital, North Wales Counties Mental Hospital, North Wales Mental Hospital and finally North Wales Hospital. Locally it was just "The Hospital" or "Yr Ysbyty".

Also closed in 1995 not 2002

 

[Shaun]

@Yorrick we know one local who calls it the mental

 

[Yorrick]

@Yorrick we know one local who calls it the mental

You might, but I have no idea who that is

 

[Shaun]

You might, but I have no idea who that is

Graham the guy who recorded the guy who got bit by elwyn dog

 

[samla89]

Boss stuff, buildings in a sad state but this report makes me wanna go down there me self before it's gone completely!

 

[Yorrick]

we know one local who calls it the mental

In his videos he calls it North Wales Hospital

 

[Shaun]

In his videos he calls it North Wales Hospital

 

[tumbles]

He also refers to it as Denbigh Asylum = incorrect, Denbigh Lunatic Asylum = incorrect.

 

[Yorrick]

Fair enough but Jeez, he also thinks half of Denbigh village is haunted.

 

[tumbles]

He's fucking weird - he had his camera smashed to pieces by the bloke, was assulted by the bloke, got bitten by his dog.... and yet he's still all chummy with him now. Almost feels like click bait shite to me.

I wouldn't piss on the bloke if he was on fire after he let his dog loose on me.