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Dist:0.4km north<br/>The building at the end of the path with its clock tower was the Main Ward of the former Napsbury Hospital. The hospital was built, in its country house and grounds style setting, between 1898 and 1905 to the design of Rowland Plumbe. It was designed to accommodate some 1,200 long stay patients who through illness were unable to make a full contribution to society. The hospital closed in 1998 and the site and buildings have since been refurbished to create The Arboretum estate. A look at the Google satellite imagery, which currently shows the state of the hospital before the changes were made, reveals how many buildings were demolished to open up this vista. The houses on either side of the square are new.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This section of the River Colne is a kilometre from a highway but via a locked farm gate and farmtrack this van was deposited by joy riders. The van originated from the remote village of Foulness
©Jack Hill
Dist:0.4km north<br/>In the distance on the left is one of the wards of the former Napsbury Hospital which was called the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum when it was first built. It has been converted into residences by Crest Nicholson. I think that, looking at the Google Earth images of the site which currently show it before its conversion, the block on the right is new, but built in the style of the existing buildings.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is the water tower and chimney of the former Napsbury Hospital, now one of the prominent features of The Arboretum residential development in Napsbury Park. The road is Beningfield Drive.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This is now a housing development called the Arboretum Expensive prices.
©Jack Hill
Dist:0.7km east<br/>Formerly part of Napsbury Hospital, now part of the Arboretum housing development. Please see further picture of the development in TL1604.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.8km south<br/>The stream is possibly the river Colne.
©Robin Hall
Dist:0.8km south<br/>This is a section of an effort which ran out of steam or perhaps ...
©Jack Hill
Dist:1.0km west<br/>I rather like the round top to the porch. It echoes the Romanesque arches over the windows.
©Jack Hill
Dist:1.0km north<br/>The site is now a housing project, The water tower is being left until last in the hopes that a keen person with half a million pounds will purchase it
©Jack Hill
Dist:1.0km south<br/>The bay willow herb was enrolled to bring colour to the designs. The colour in any case is fading quite quickly
©Jack Hill
Dist:1.0km south<br/>or did they have only a small quantity of red spray
©Jack Hill
Dist:1.0km east<br/>This one is fed from the main lake which is also the course of the River Colne.
©Jack Hill
Dist:1.1km northeast<br/>The prefab construction has a rather grim appearance and the approach is rather bleak
©Jack Hill
Dist:1.2km southeast<br/>The complex was once a convent but is now more an educational community with residential accommodation.
©Jack Hill

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