IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Farm Crescent, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1UQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Farm Crescent, AL2 1UQ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (5 Images Found)
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London Colney: Napsbury Park: Siding Way
Napsbury Park was the site of the former Napsbury Hospital, formerly called the Middlesex County Mental Hospital, which was built in 1905. Most of these large institutional hospitals had isolation hospital annexes and a railway connection for the transfer of patients and for bringing supplies in. Napsbury was no exception and a siding left the site of the former Napsbury station on the Midland Railway's main line coming down this route towards the Hospital. It was known, unsurprisingly, as the Napsbury Siding, hence the name of today's road. When it was dismantled I do not know but Napsbury station is shown in use, and the siding existing, on the 1940s Ordnance Survey Popular Map.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 19 May 2009
0.14 miles
2
Napsbury Hospital London Colney
This is now a housing development called the Arboretum Expensive prices.
Image: © Jack Hill
Taken: 16 Jul 2005
0.16 miles
3
Napsbury Hospital London Colney
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
Image: © Jack Hill
Taken: 16 Jul 2005
0.16 miles
4
London Colney: Napsbury Park
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.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 22 Jun 2007
0.23 miles
5
Little Croft Court, Napsbury Park
These are the old blocks from the mental hospital which was converted some years ago.
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 6 Aug 2015
0.25 miles