Due to overcrowding at Broadmoor, an extending asylum branch was constructed at Rampton Secure Hospital and opened in 1912. Rampton was closed as a branch asylum at the end of 1919 and reopened as an institution for "mental defectives" rather than lunatics.

2020年2月23日 · Originally known as the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Broadmoor Hospital opened in the Berkshire village of Crowthorne in 1863. It was initially designed to accommodate both male and...

2011年2月25日 · Broadmoor Hospital opened in 1863 and has always admitted patients who would otherwise have been in the prison system. Mark Stevens discovers some of the patients’ stories, and takes a journey...

2024年12月14日 · Broadmoor is a specialist psychiatric hospital which provides assessment, treatment and care in conditions of high security for men aged 18 and above from London and the South of England.

2016年3月10日 · It was first built as a lunatic asylum for the criminally insane which is now an NHS hospital. Entry to Broadmoor takes time and strict protocol. It houses 210 patients behind its walls whom...

Broadmoor Hospital / Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Crowthorne, Berkshire. The Broadmoor Hospital (originally formally known as Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum) was opened in 1863 to house individuals who were diagnosed as insane while in custody on criminal charges.

2022年10月23日 · The NHS is now in control of Broadmoor Hospital, and is keen to demonstrate that it is a high-security psychiatric hospital, not a prison. It holds approximately 230 male patients, all of whom are detained under the Mental Health Act.

2009年9月22日 · Broadmoor has housed some of Britain's most notorious criminals in its 146-year history. It was built after the creation of the Criminal Lunatics Act 1860, also called the Broadmoor Act. It...

Broadmoor Hospital is a specialist high-secure psychiatric hospital which provides assessment, treatment and care for men aged 18 and above. The hospital is one of three high-secure psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales and is internationally renowned for its highly specialised care and research work.

Country’s first criminal asylum at risk from over-development. Broadmoor Hospital in Crowthorne is at risk because of an ambitious and damaging plan to demolish part of the original hospital, convert the remaining blocks into a boutique hotel and build more than a hundred homes in the hospital’s vast kitchen garden.