Hellingly Hospital, formerly the East Sussex County Asylum, was a large psychiatric hospital close to the village of Hellingly, east of Hailsham, in the English county of East Sussex.

Originally known as the East Sussex County Asylum, Hellingly Hospital lies on the hills of East Sussex just outside Hailsham. The complex was built on 400 acres of land that was formally the Park Farm near Hellingly Village.

2019年7月30日 · During the mid-1980s, Hellingly was chosen as one of five mental hospital sites in the south east of England to accommodate a medium secure unit, known as Ashen Hill and located to the east of the main buildings and villas.

2020年11月23日 · Now a destination for horror-seekers and urban explorers, a psychiatric ward in East Sussex has lain abandoned for 26 years. Hellingly Hospital, formerly known as Sussex County Asylum, opened its doors in 1903. Originally called the County Lunatic Asylum, the hospital was built on 400 acres of woodland at Park Farm.

Here, on 20 July 1903, the Hellingly Mental Hospital was inaugurated: an asylum, the best in the area because, apparently, the most innovative treatments were experimented there. It was also the refuge for patients who had to flee West Sussex due to the First World War.

Originally known as the East Sussex County Asylum, Hellingly Hospital lies on the hills of East Sussex just outside Hailsham. The complex was built on 400 acres of land that was formally the Park Farm near Hellingly Village.

2023年1月2日 · Within the village lies empty Hellingly Hospital, once known as the Sussex County Asylum. The abandoned asylum building has been explored by many curious revellers, including Sussex YouTube star Joe Weller. The village is also home to some charming hotels, great food, and even a vineyard.

2025年1月5日 · Hellingly Hospital began construction in 1898 and first opened in 1903 as East Sussex County Lunatic Asylum. Originally, East and West Sussex shared a joint asylum, being St. Francis at Haywards Heath, when the county was still one body however when it split into east and west in 1889, East Sussex needed its own institution, and, to ease ...

The hospital was built at the turn of the twentieth century because of problems of overcrowding at the Haywards Health Asylum, formerly the Sussex County Asylum. The hospital had its own electric tramway, the Hellingly Hospital Railway.

Hellingly Hospital, formerly known as the East Sussex County Asylum, was a large Psychiatric hospital close to the village of Hellingly in the English county of East Sussex. The County Authority of East Sussex decided to build a new lunatic asylum at the turn of the twentieth century after problems of overcrowding at the Haywards Health Asylum ...