It also housed some very nasty women too, but they shut the women's section last year.
When the alarm goes off, local schools go onto red alert and they set up a roadblock around the nearest village. We actually lived miles away when I was at school, but because the hospital is set on sort of moor land it's possible to get an awfully long way from it cross country without ever coming across a town, then pop up in the village.
Just as a point of interest, it used to house Dr William Chester Minor, the former US Army physician who spent 38 years in the hospital after killing a man outside his house in London after going insane. He was a major contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary whilst a resident.
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