(410) 687-1383 . Now Open. The reporter commented: "The entrance is from a road with a southern aspect, through a great gateway between which and the principal entrance is a wide intervening space planted with shrubs, trees, and flowers. now doesn't that just makepurfect sense? We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the worlds hidden wonders. The Hospital Records database is no longer being updated. need a stop over before the tunnel or a place from which to visit Kent This page was last edited on 9 May 2014, at 23:05. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win the second edition of our book. Oakwood Hospital, Maidstone, Kent Mention the word asylum in connection with people who have a mental illness and it conjures up all sorts of images. which was the burial ground for Oakwood Hospital, will be . The Cross erected to the memory of all the persons buried here, and avenue of evergreen trees. Following its closure in 1988, it was demolished and the site was cleared. You can be forgiven for considering this a rather murky part of our history, as these were institutions where patients were often shut away, some for many years at a time, and subjected to unknown horrors in the name of "treatment". St Andrew's House and The Queen's House are both Grade II listed buildings and so were spared demolition. Said the engineers were talking about a tunnel that runs under stone street from Maidstone to Mote park, 6 / 7 metres down, shopkeeper verified this with an elderly resident who said the tunnels were escape tunnels from WW2. Fieldwork methods and recording "I'he trenches were cleaned by hand and any revealed features were sanil)led to Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald. We pay our respects to Kent residents who have died in recent weeks. "In looking through the sleeping rooms we noticed that the patients who can be trusted are allowed to pass their nights in privacy without being watched or visited; others who need some little attention are visited by an attendant at intervals, and the record of the visit is registered by a telltale clock; while others of a suicidal or otherwise dangerous kind are kept constantly under observation. The Program acknowledged that this closure would accelerate the strategic objective of vacating the total site. Sign up to our daily newsletter for all the latest Kent stories and breaking news delivered straight to your inbox. - See 446 traveler reviews, 130 candid photos, and great deals for Oakwood House Hotel at Tripadvisor. And I hear Persimmon (or whoever it was) lost a digger in a large hole while they were developing the new houses. See also MED01/01/2855-2860 and MED01/01/2862-2865. Final closure of the Oakwood Hospital came in the 1990s when all its remaining functions had been transferred to the Maidstone Hospital. The unhealthiest places to live in Kent Explore! Official MapQuest website, find driving directions, maps, live traffic updates and road conditions. (Unpublished document). (Just hope they got all the people off the bus if it is down there! As a precaution some 340 patients have been moved, 132 to other hospitals. A new nurses' home was built in 1927, and in late 1930s an admission hospital and convalescent villas - for patients being discharged from the admission hospital - were constructed. The original hospital, St. Andrews House, was designed by John Whichcord Snr to accommodate 168 patients and opened on the 1st January 1833. After the First World War, it became known as Canterbury City Mental Hospital, and was renamed St Martin's, after the church nearby, following the Second World War. It may not display this or other websites correctly. still interesting though. Maidstone - Five Oak Green. Evaluation at Oakwood Hospital, Maidstone. The tunnels aren't completely sealed, they have left access for bats at bothends. Although the fire was promptly put under control, a 115 foot ventilation tower suddenly collapsed during the clean-up operation and claimed six lives. Its absolutely fascinating anyway! SKE7297. That's the beginning of one of the culverted parts of the River Len which runs under the Sainsburys, the Shopping Centre and a few other roads etc. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. By the time that the hospital passed into the care of the South East Metropolitan Hospital Board in 1948 it was authorised to accommodate 2055 patients, although the figure is likely to have been higher than this. Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. Among the more notable in Kent was one founded in the 1760s by William Perfect, a doctor who had a particular interest in treating people deemed to be insane. St Andrew's House and The Queen's House are both Grade II listed buildings and so were spared demolition. There have been many rumors of tunnels hidden beneath the city maidstone but no one can really find any proof of it. There has been a very thorough job done this time but I think it's only amatter of time before it's opened up again.