South Ockendon Hospital

South Ockendon Hospital was a hospital for patients with severe learning difficulties and for patients with major and rare mental health illnesses in South Ockendon, Essex.

The site acquired for the hospital, which once formed part of the South Ockendon Hall estate, was known as Little Mollands Farm. It opened as the South Ockendon Colony, a facility for "mental defectives", in 1932. It joined the National Health Service in 1948 when it was renamed the South Ockendon Hospital. The foundation stone for the Gloucester Clinic, a new clinical facility, was laid by the Duchess of Gloucester in 1955.

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