Green Lane Stroll 3 - St Lawrence's Asylum Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/14/2016
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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A long straight lane with public bridleway status.

Green lane used to take alot heavier traffic in the past. It used to be the service/delivery entrances for the Caterham Barracks and St Lawrence Asylum which both backed onto this lane.

The Green Lane stroll series is designed to make you think outside box and bring you out of your geocaching comfort zone, and also tell you some history about the area too.



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The caterham metropolitan asylum, later to be known as St Lawrence's hospital, opened in September 1870. It was one of two, the other being atLeavesden, North London, to be built by the metropolitan asylums board to provide healthcare for "insane paupers" living in workhouses in London. The Asylums were built on the same pattern, each being intended to house 1560 patients with six 3 storey blocks for females and 5 blocks for males.
New buildings continued to be added and by 1920 when the asylum was renamed the caterham mental hospital, 2109 patients could be accommodated.

The administration of the hospital was taken over by the London county council in 1930 and in 1941 was renamed St Lawrence's hospital after the parish in which it stood. It became the responsibility of the national health service in 1948, over the next few decades it was managed by the Croydon health authority and the lifcare trust and finally by the Surrey and borders NHS trust . By the time of its closure in 1994 there had been great changes in the care of people with mental health/learning disabilities which resulted in many former patients being able to live more independently in the community.

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