NHER 31913 (Monument record) - Site of post medieval isolation hospital
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF61NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
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.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF66709 Newspaper Article: Lynn News. 2006. 'Nowhere' hospital on spooky site. 3 November.
- <S2> SNF70643 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1905. Second edition six inch map.
- <S3> SNF70665 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1927. Ordnance Survey 25 inch map.
- <S4> SNF48659 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