Brockhall, Lancashire

Brockhall, Lancashire

Brockhall is a village in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire and home to the training facilities for Blackburn Rovers F.C. The village is in the civil parish of Billington and Langho. It is a gated community and is convert|7|mi north of Blackburn.

Brockhall Hospital

Brockhall Hospital was once Europe's largest mental institution. It was built in 1904 as an Inebriate Women's Reformatory, later becoming a hospital for people with learning disabilities.

The hospital was closed by the NHS in 1992 as part of the government's Care in the Community policy, and the property developer Gerald Hitman, who had earlier bought the lease on the hospital, started to develop the site, replacing the hospital with a gated community, which now contains more than 400 homes, as well as the Blackburn Rovers training ground and a hotel. [cite web | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2007/04/26/npzoo126.xml | title=A crazy design but it works | date=2007-04-25 | last=Wilkinson | first=Paul | accessdate=2008-06-09 | publisher=Telegraph Media Group | work=telegraph.co.uk ]

References

External links

* [http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/GettingThere/0,,10303,00.html Directions to Brockhall] from Blackburn Rovers website.


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