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English: High Royds This is the High Royds at its bleakest, and a stark reminder of its very grim past.

Here people considered unfit to live in society, would be kept under lock and key, and forgotten about as a problem nicely brushed under the carpet. Not all people interned in Asylums had mental health problems. Single mothers whose only crime was to have a child outside of wedlock were considered a disgrace to society in Victorian days, and were locked away for their crimes against morality. Experimental lobotomies were carried out to try find a cure for insanity here.

High Royds was one of the last remaining psychiatric hospitals of its kind still functioning when it closed in February 2003. Opening on 8 October 1888 it was then known as West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum. It was the third establishment of its kind in the former West Riding of Yorkshire.

The hospital site included at one stage a library, surgery, dispensary, ballroom, butchers, dairies, bakers and even its own railway. By the 1930’s a sweetshop, cobbler, upholsterer and a tailor were all added turning the hospital into a small self-contained village.
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Camera location53° 52′ 53″ N, 1° 44′ 05″ W  Heading=337° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location53° 52′ 57″ N, 1° 44′ 08″ W  Heading=337° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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