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This modern postbox is at the western part of Charlton Down, outside the general store. It is emptied at 4:15pm on weekdays and at 11am on Saturdays. For more discussion of the Charlton Down estate, see Image

This large tree stands by the village shop, whose frontage is just about in picture on the left-hand edge. For more about this development, see Image

Here we look along Sherren Avenue, the central thoroughfare of the Charlton Down estate. The estate occupies a 400-acre site which was the Herrison Mental Hospital, an asylum which had opened in Victorian times and became the Dorset County Mental Hospital in 1920 before taking the Herrison name in 1940. The three major buildings were redeveloped, following the abandonment of the site in the early 1990s, into dwellings and hundreds of houses, such as those pictured, were built on the surrounding land.

Once a mental hospital, now part of the village of Charlton Down and converted into flats.

One of the three larger original buildings of the Herrison Hospital (see Image) which has been converted for use as the village hall.

Once a mental institution, this austere building has been converted into flats forming part of the village of Charlton Down near Charminster.

Charlton Down is a new village built on the site of Herrison hospital which used to be Dorset County Mental Hospital. Many of the old hospital buildings have been converted to apartments and housing as well as many new houses being built.

The Charlton Down housing estate occupies the site of the old Herrison Hospital, originally a Victorian mental hospital which was renamed Herrison in 1940. The chapel was dedicated in 1896, before which Sunday services were held in the asylum itself.

Houses on the new residential development where it abuts open farmland.