Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums

Boston Workhouse Gatehouse submitted by Jennie

General Sites

• County Asylums,The Fate of Britains Asylums and Mental Hospitals

• Asylum Information

• Life In A Victorian Lunatic Asylum

• Coram Foundling Hospital Association

• St Marylebone, Middlesex, London

• The Workhouse, - Very Comprehensive Site

• Rossbret Workhouses Website

• Rossbret Asylums Website

• Life in Asylums and Hospitals

• Industrial & Reformatory Schools in England and Wales During the 19th and Early 20th century

Irish Maps of Poor Law unions

• Poor Law Union Maps of County Kilkenny

• Cavan Poor Law Unions

• County Clare Poor Law Unions

• Poor Law Unions (and Superintendent Registrar's Districts) of Donegal

• The Poor Law in Donegal: Milford Union

• The Workhouse in Dunshaughlin

Welsh Poor Law Unions

• Poor Law: Board of Guardians-Wales-Powys

• The Workhouse at Caersws

• Poor Law Union: Radnorshire

Other information sites

• Wiki Poor Law Definition

• TNA's Hospital Database Search Facility

• Surrey History Centre Collections Catalogue

• High Littleton & Hallatrow History and Parish Records

• Poor Law Unions, Workhouses, and Hospitals Links

• Records of patients at "The Retreat" (Large Quaker Mental Hospital in York)

• Establishment of Hospitals, Asylums, Hospital Ships, Smallpox & TB

• Northampton Poor Law Union Records

• Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals

• An Index to Institutions in The 1901 Census of England and Wales

• Poor Law and Workhouse Records for Croydon

• Although written as an introduction to the Apprenticeship Register for Dawlish, Devon This provides a good description of the Parish Apprenticeship system in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

For more information see Poor Law and Workhouse Records

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