Kew Asylum

Kew Lunatic Asylum is a decommissioned psychiatric hospital located between Princess Street and Yarra Boulevard in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Type: Building
Description: former psychiatric hospital in Kew, Australia
Also known as: “Kew Lunatic Asylum” and “Willsmere”
Address: 1 Wiltshire Drive, Kew, VIC 3101

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Thomas Embling Hospital and Fairfield railway station, Melbourne.

Thomas Embling Hospital

Hospital

Thomas Embling Hospital is a high security forensic mental health hospital located in Fairfield, a Melbourne suburb in Victoria, Australia. The facility is operated by the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, who are responsible for providing adult forensic mental health services in Victoria. Thomas Embling Hospital is situated 1¼ km northwest of Kew Asylum.

Fairfield railway station, Melbourne

Railway station

Photo: Wongm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fairfield station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Hurstbridge line, part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the north-eastern suburb of Fairfield in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Fairfield railway station, Melbourne is situated 2 km north of Kew Asylum.

Fairfield Amphitheatre

Theater building

Photo: Canley, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fairfield Amphitheatre is a theater building, which is situated 1½ km northwest of Kew Asylum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Westgarth and Inner east.

Westgarth

Neighborhood

Photo: Batterbu, Public domain.

Westgarth is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Northcote, about 4 or 5 kilometres north-east of Melbourne's central business district in Victoria, Australia. Westgarth is situated 3 km northwest of Kew Asylum.

Inner east

Photo: Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY 2.0.

The inner east of Melbourne consists of a number of suburbs and localities within the Yarra municipality. Compared with glitzy Stonnington on the other side of the river, the inner eastern area is known among Melburnians as a working-class district, filled with pubs and old factories.

Jolimont

Neighborhood

Jolimont is an unbounded neighbourhood of the suburb of East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Situated to the south east of the city's primary axis, Jolimont features parks, business precincts and a limited amount of residential accommodation. Jolimont is situated 4 km southwest of Kew Asylum.

Kew Asylum

Categories: hospital and former hospital
Location: Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.79512° or 37° 47′ 42″ south

Longitude

145.0232° or 145° 1′ 24″ east

Open location code

4RJ7623F+X7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 201244479

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

Wikidata ID

Q8022495

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bosnian to Fulah—“Kew Asylum” goes by many names.

Bosnian: “Utočište za ludake Kew”
Chinese: “基尤精神病院”
Fulah: “Kew asylum”

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