NHER 60736 (Monument record) - Possible site of lunatic asylum

In Madhouse Plantation there used to be a building, marked as Mad House on (S1), but not on Bryant 1826 (S2), and as Madhouse on later maps. A local story is that this was an early private lunatic asylum; but the name could be of the same origin as "folly farm" (ie, built on poor land) and the story derived from the name. Source (S3) says that the story is true and that a census gives the names of the inmates, but (S4) says that the 1851 census names four labouring families as residents, asylums did not usually have the names of inmates given, and there are no earlier censuses.
Previously recorded under NHER 37031.
E. Rose (NLA), 10 January 2003. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2015.