Wonford House Hospital

Wonford House Hospital, also previously known as the Wonford House Asylum and Exe Vale Hospital is a building built as an 'asylum for lunatics', and which has continued to provide mental health care, now being the headquarters building of the Devon Partnership NHS Trust, and housing a number of mental health units in the grounds.
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  • Type: Hospital building
  • Description: Mental health hospital in Exeter, Devon, England
  • Also known as: “Wonford House, Wonford House Asylum, Exe Vale Hospital”
  • Address: Dryden Road, Exeter, EX2 5AF
Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Exeter Hospital and Exeter Cathedral.

Hospital
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is situated 1,400 feet west of Wonford House Hospital.

Church
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, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of , , in . is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Wonford House Hospital.

School
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is situated 1,200 feet south of Wonford House Hospital.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wonford and Heavitree.

Suburb
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is a former village, manor and ecclesiastical parish in Devon, England, now a part of the City of . The 13th century St Loye's Chapel situated within the parish now gives its name to the surrounding location.

Suburb
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is a historic village and former civil parish situated formerly outside the walls of the City of Exeter in , England, and is today an eastern district of that city.

Locality
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in , Devon, is an ancient triangular site between what is today Heavitree Road and Magdalen Road, in the eastern suburbs of Exeter. It was most notoriously used as a place for executions, and has contained an almshouse and chapel since 1591.

Wonford House Hospital

Latitude
50.71553° or 50° 42′ 56″ north
Longitude
-3.5061° or 3° 30′ 22″ west
Elevation
135 feet (41 metres)
Open location code
9C2RPF8V+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 30326470
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­hospital
Geo­Names ID
6288640
Wiki­data ID
Q114855352
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