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

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

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

422610

Northing

562270

Grid Reference

NZ422610562270

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