Fieldhead Hospital

The hospital, which replaced earlier hospitals such as Oulton Hall, Hatfield Hall and Cardigan Hospital, was built at a cost of £2 million and opened by Princess Alexandra on 11 July 1972. The hospital was designed as a series of villas, each named after a local area and each intended to accommodate a category of resident i.e. children, adolescents, adults, geriatrics, or severely disabled. The hospital started offering a broader range of psychiatric services, after the Stanley Royd Hospital closed in 1995. A patient with paranoid schizophrenia was charged with murdering a fellow-patient at the hospital in December 1998. The "Unity Centre", a new building with state of the art therapeutic…