Map sources for Ashworth Hospital at grid reference SD397030

Ashworth Hospital is a high-security institution in the town of Maghull, a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... Maghull is a town in Sefton, Merseyside, England. ... Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough on Merseyside in north west England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary. ... Merseyside is a metropolitan county, created in the 1974 local government reform. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity...

Ashworth is one of the three "special" hospitals in England and Wales, along with Rampton Rampton Secure Hospital and Broadmoor, that exist to work with people who require treatment in conditions of special security due to their "dangerous, violent or criminal propensities". Ashworth was formed from the merger of the old Moss Side Hospital – originally a learning-disability unit once used for the treatment of "shell shock" in World War I – and the vastly more modern/appropriate Park Lane Hospital, opened as a Broadmoor overspill unit in the early 1970s. Rampton Secure Hospital is a high security institution in the village of Woodbeck between Retford and Rampton in Nottinghamshire, England. ... Broadmoor may refer to several different places: Broadmoor Hospital, a British secure hospital for the criminally insane Broadmoor Hotel, a five-star resort located in Colorado Springs, Colorado Broadmoor, California This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The military term combat stress reaction (CSR) comprises the range of adverse behaviours in reaction to the stress of combat and combat related activities. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... Broadmoor may refer to several different places: Broadmoor Hospital, a British secure hospital for the criminally insane Broadmoor Hotel, a five-star resort located in Colorado Springs, Colorado Broadmoor, California This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

The hospital has had a mixed history and has been the subject of two major Public Inquiries – Blom-Cooper in the 1992 and Fallon in 1998. It currently houses some 400 patients (88% men).

Patients

• Ian Brady

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See also

Broadmoor and Rampton Secure Hospital are two other high-security mental hospitals in England and Wales, with the state hospital Carstairs fulfilling a similar role for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Broadmoor Hospital is a secure mental hospital in Crowthorne in Berkshire. ... Rampton Secure Hospital is a high security institution in the village of Woodbeck between Retford and Rampton in Nottinghamshire, England. ...