All over the UK dotted throughout countryside and city alike lie abandoned asylums, relics of a bygone era of mental health where the aim was to isolate patients in a secure facility rather than integrating them with the community. Here I have selected a top ten list based on the number of Flickr photos I found for each asylum in a single search, doubtlessly I will have missed important sites and got the ranking wrong but please feel free to point them out by leaving a comment. All of the photos used below were taken by other photographers and are used under a Creative Commons license (click through to Flickr for attribution), if you think you’ve got a better photo and it’s not CC – get your licensing sorted!
1. Hellingly
2. Cane Hill
3. West Park
4. Whittingham
5. Severalls
6. Denbigh
7. Deva
8. St Mary’s
9. Talgarth
10. St John’s
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Yeh, fair play but the better condition asylums like High Royds, Stone House and Lancaster Moor deserve some reperesentation!
I quite like you site, i was after doing some Top 10s on mine if i ever get it how i want it!
Great post and fantastic images here! Your article was the inspiration behind a post I just did on asylums, borrowing a few of the ones listed here. I guess some of these had become proper hospitals by the times they closed but even so, it’s amazing to think there are still so many of these places around! Would be great if they redeveloped the buildings… although I’m not actually sure I’d want to live in one!
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or any of thees still places still arond as i hade a progect for mental thelth cuming up i whas gust wundring if us whod now
cod u sed me an email back
than you
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The only one I’ve been to (relatively) recently is West Park and I’ve not heard that it’s been knocked down, your best bet is to check for recent reports on sites like Derelict Places or 28 Days Later.
Someone needs to take these old asylums and turn them into Gothic Hotels. They are so gorgeous, it is a shame to see them setting and rotting away. =(
how many of these are still up? i dont know why people would want to knock them down. they have so much history. is hellingly still up?
I know severalls is still there it’s a fun teen thing to go exploring there and frighten each other half to death.lol
Re Helligly,you know where,Sussex, have yet to hear Ashen Hill & Southview wards have been emptied & closed
Deb.
random phone coonection @ hastings 01424716019….6 months x 2 at Rothermay DGH before despatches went in, amongst others. such is life.
would love to get into urbex photography but its so secretive i live in wales can travel if any one wants to reply
with a email address so i can contact them
Saw an article on MSN about Denbeigh Asylum and started surfing the web. So far have seen some stunning pictures and places that if I had a bit of nerve would like to visit.Got to be honest it would scare me shitless, having said that though was a bit of a snooper on old industrial sites as a kid, but asylums, geez i’ll leave it to you guys.