H.M. Stanley Hospital

The hospital had its origins in the St. Asaph Union Workhouse which was designed by John Welch and completed in 1839.^[1] The workhouse became home to Henry Morton Stanley, who went on to become an adventurer and journalist, in 1847.^[1] A new infirmary was built in 1903.^[1] The workhouse became the St Asaph Public Assistance Institution in 1930 and it joined the National Health Service as the H.M. Stanley Hospital, named after its famous student, in 1948.^[2]

After the health board found that the hospital would need substantial refurbishment work to restore it to a status that was fit for purpose, services at the hospital were transferred to other hospitals, including a new eye unit at Abergele Hospital^[3] and it closed in April 2012.^[2] The site was the headquarters of the Welsh Ambulance Service until 2019, when the trust moved to St Asaph Business Park.^[4][5] In 2019, the building was in the process of being decommissioned and sold.^[4]