Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Cambridge
Record types
- Administrative
- 1939 - 1986
- General
- 1939 - 1986
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Brief guide (BG)
- Location
- At Repository (AR)
Hospital
Bowthorpe Hospital
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- County Maternity Home
- Bowthorpe Hall Maternity Home
- Address
- Tavistock Road, Wisbech, PE13 2DZ
- Foundation Year
- Unknown
- Status
- Closed (since 1986)
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- East Anglian
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- Peterborough Area
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- East Anglian
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- East Anglian
- District Authority (1974-1982)
- King's Lynn
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- West Norfolk and Wisbech
- Pre-1974 County
- Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
- Post-1974 County
- Cambridgeshire
- Post-1996 County
- Not applicable
Status
- Pre-1948
- Local Authority
- Pre-1948 information
- LA: Isle of Ely County Council.
- Post-1948
- NHS
Type
- Pre-1948
- Maternity
- Post-1948
- Maternity, Mental
- Post-1948 information
- MNT: by 1986 - ? Mental illness.
Other information
Hospital closed ?1986 following opening of new District General Hospital at King's Lynn. Townshend Unit is a unit for the elderly mentally infirm in the same buildings under the King's Lynn and Wisbech NHS Hospital Trust