Whittingham Asylum - 18th June 2006

The fourth County Lunatic Asylum at Whittingham standing on an eminence, erected in 1869, from designs by Mr. Henry Littler, architect of Manchester, at a cost of £338,300, is of red brick and forms a quadrangle of detached blocks of buildings with corridors radiating from the centre and is available [1913] 1,079 male and 1,035 female patients.

The buildings include a hospital for Infectious Diseases, and additional buildings were erected between the years 1897-1900. Within the grounds which cover a site of 60 acres, is a Church, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and a tower. There is a private railway in connection with Grimsargh station, for the conveyance of Visitors to the Asylum.