NHER 31913 (Monument record) - Site of post medieval isolation hospital

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Summary

This is the site of a post medieval isolation hospital. The hospital is shown as a cruciform building on early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps. It was demolished sometime after 1952.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF61NW
Civil Parish KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Site of Isolation Hospital.
Cruciform building, pre 1911.
See in file for NHER 1911 special enlargement of 25" OS for Inland Revenue purposes. Parish boundaries, dykes etc. all since changed. Site now marked by Ordnance Survey as vacant land in factory estate.
E. Rose (NLA) 25 July 1996.

(S1) in file notes that this was a timber building known as “the old fever hospital” and “Nowhere” in the 1940s.
E. Rose (NLA), 26 September 2006.

This building appears on Ordnance Survey maps of 1905 (S2) 1927 (S3) and 1952 but was not marked on the 1886 Ordnance Survey map (S4) of this area.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 10 May 2019.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Newspaper Article: Lynn News. 2006. 'Nowhere' hospital on spooky site. 3 November.
  • <S2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1905. Second edition six inch map.
  • <S3> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1927. Ordnance Survey 25 inch map.
  • <S4> Map: Ordnance Survey, First Edition, 6 Inch. 1879-1886. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 6 inch map..

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Record last edited

May 10 2019 12:22PM

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