Dunston Lodge Lunatic Asylum

HER Number:
7866

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Dunston Lodge Lunatic Asylum

Place:
Dunston

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:
Hospital

Site Type: Specific:
Psychiatric Hospital

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Also known as Garbutt's Asylum (it was under the management of Cornelius Garbutt). In 1841 it housed 84 people. In 1851 it housed 157. In 1875 inmates from Bensham Lunatic Asylum were moved here.

Easting:
2261

Northing:
6227

Grid Reference:
NZ22616227

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
D. Lumley, 1932, The Story of Gateshead Town - From the earliest age to the mid Victorian, p 124-125; William Whelan & Co, 1856, History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham