Hill End Hospital

The hospital, which was designed by George Thomas Hine using a Compact Arrow layout, opened as the Hertfordshire County Asylum in April 1899.^[1] Hill End railway station, a station on the Great Northern Railway branch from Hatfield to St Albans, was opened to service the hospital in August 1899.^[2] The asylum became the Hertfordshire County Mental Hospital in 1920 and the Hill End Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases in 1936.^[3] During the Second World War patients were evacuated from St Bartholomew's Hospital to Hill End Hospital.^[1] It became part of the National Health Service as the Hill End Hospital and Clinic for the Prevention and Treatment of Mental and Nervous Disorders in 1948.^[3]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in November 1995.^[1] The buildings have since been demolished and the site redeveloped for residential use.^[1]