Leigh Court is a country house which is a Grade II* listed building in Abbots Leigh, Somerset, England. The grounds and park are listed, Grade II, on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of spec
Leigh Court. The north east front in 2014
The Drawing Room, Leigh Court, Bristol, c.1840. Oil on canvas by Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham
A pond in Leigh Woods attached to the estate
Stoke Park Hospital, was a large hospital for the mentally handicapped, closed circa 1997, situated on the north-east edge of Bristol, England, just within South Gloucestershire. Most patients were lo
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…for Persons Requiring Care and Control to care for mentally disabled children and adults. In 1908 they rented the Stoke Park estate, opening the Stoke Park Colony in April 1909. The colony was the first institution certified as a home for mentally disabled patients under the Mental Deficiency Act 1913, Burden…
The Dower House, formerly part of the hospital
The hospital clock tower, retained in the subsequent housing development. The clock has memorial plaques for Harold Nelson Burden and Katherine Mary Burden.