Stow Lodge Hospital, Union Road, Onehouse, Suffolk

This was built in 1781 as a Union Workhouse (a workhouse under control of several parishes) under the Gilbert Act (1782). The 1881 census shows that the workhouse had a staff of 3 (Neville Simmonds, his wife and his son) and 138 inmates. Some time later, the workhouse became Stow Lodge Hospital, which closed in 1991.

Location

Suffolk Onehouse

Period

Georgian (1714 - 1836)

Tags

health medicine poor law institution workhouse Georgian (1714 - 1836)