St George's Hospital, Morpeth

The facility was designed by Henry Welch, the County Surveyor of Northumberland, using a corridor plan layout and opened as the Northumberland County Pauper Lunatic Asylum on 16 March 1859.^[1] It was extended in the 1880s and three villas were added in the 1890s, before it was renamed St George's Hospital in the 1930s.^[1]

A German Luftwaffe bomber crash landed in the hospital grounds in 1942 during the Second World War.^[2]

The hospital joined the National Health Service 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 2006.^[1] Many of the old buildings have been demolished and the site has been developed for residential use as "Saint George".^[4]

Meanwhile, a small modern health facility, which was named St George's Park was built slightly to the north of the old hospital.^[1]