Rauceby Hospital - Raf Rauceby | Education Video by World of Military

<p>Please note this is now on private land you need to ask before going into the site the owner is very rude and will phone the police .. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>In 1889 Kesteven became its own authority and was required by law to have any asylum so the search began to find a suitable site for building one. Sixteen sites were shortlisted and the land at Rauceby was the cheapest so the 112 acre site was chosen. Five different architects were asked to submit designs, including those who has designed High Royds and Talgarth asylums. George T. Hine, who was Britain’s leading asylum designer, having designed 14 of them, was chosen and construction started on his echelon style plans which saw the hospital wards connected via a network of corridors.</p><p><br></p><p>The asylum was built on a budget and lacked a lot of the grandeur of other asylums designed by Hine. Designed to accommodate 460 patients, the first arrived by train on June 20th 1902, from a nearby temporary workhouse. Like most asylums they were built to be self sufficient so had their own farms, water tower, laundry facilities and kitchens and in 1913 the hospital farms were extended by 70 acres. The following year a c