Aston Hall, Aston-on-Trent

Aston Hall
Aston Hall
Location within Derbyshire
Geography
Location Aston-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Coordinates 52°51′30″N 1°23′06″W / 52.85833°N 1.38500°W / 52.85833; -1.38500Coordinates: 52°51′30″N 1°23′06″W / 52.85833°N 1.38500°W / 52.85833; -1.38500
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type Psychiatric
Services
Emergency department No Accident & Emergency
History
Founded 1930
Closed 1993
Links
Lists Hospitals in the United Kingdom

Aston Hall is an 18th-century country house, now converted to residential apartments, at Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]

History

At the time of the Norman conquest, Aston-on-Trent was part of the Manor of Weston which was granted by the Crown to the Earl of Chester and by him to the Abbey of St Werburgh at Chester. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Manor was granted to Sir William Paget. In 1612 Weston passed to Anthony Roper by marriage and in 1633 he purchased the house and estate at Aston. In 1648 he sold the estate to Robert Holden of Shardlow.[2]

His descendant, also Robert Holden, was a successful lawyer who replaced the old house with a new red brick three storey five bayed mansion in 1735.[1] The house was greatly extended by the addition of a substantial north wing and other improvements by Edward Anthony Holden who was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1838. Holden's daughter Mary Shuttleworth Boden was born here in 1840.[3] She was a noted temperance campaigner and a she gave Derby its first children's playground.[4] The estate was sold by the Holdens in 1898 to William Dicken Winterbottom.[5]

In 1924 it was broken up and the house was sold to Nottingham County Council and became Nottingham Corporation Home for Mental Deficients in about 1930.[6] After joining the National Health Service in 1948, it became known as Aston Hall Hospital.[6] A report published in July 2018 referred to allegations of abuse at the hospital in the 1960s and 1970s.[7] From 1974 to closure it was operated by South Derbyshire District Health Authority.[8][9]

The hospital closed in about 1993[8] and more recently the hall has been restored, renovated and converted into residential apartments.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Aston Hall, Aston-on-Trent". English Heritage. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "Derbyshire Miscellany" (PDF). Derbyshire Archaelogical Society. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Cherrington 1924, p. 361.
  4. ↑ "Mary Boden turned pocket of land into Derby's first 'properly equipped' playground". Derby Telegraph. 13 March 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Papers of Holden Family of Aston Hall, Aston-upon-Trent". National Archives. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  6. 1 2 "Aston Hall Hospital". National Archives. D4565. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Aston Hall: Dr Kenneth Milner 'would have been quizzed' for rape". BBC News. 25 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Aston Hall Hospital, Derby". Hospital Records Database. National Archives. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  9. ↑ "Aston Hall Hospital, Aston". domesday. BBC. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "New housing development and care retirement community gets planning in Aston-on-Trent". Innes England. Retrieved 22 September 2018.

Sources

  • Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1924). Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem. 1. American Issue Publishing Company.
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