Cheadle Royal Hospital

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| Location = Heald Green

| Region = Greater Manchester

| State = England

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| HealthCare = Private

| Type = Specialist

| Speciality = Mental Health

| Emergency = No

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| Founded = 1763

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| map_type = Greater Manchester

| map_caption= Shown in Greater Manchester

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Cheadle Royal Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Heald Green, Greater Manchester, England, built between 1848 and 1849. The main building is Grade II listed.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1001337|desc=Cheadle Royal Hospital}}

History

The hospital was founded at a time when only two other similar institutions existed in England (Bethlem and St Luke's){{cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/b489e047-e6b1-3992-aaa3-5e40e2147729?component=92d68f3e-e4f9-3d9d-86b0-4348d07c79ba|title=Cheadle Royal Hospital|publisher=Manchester Medical Collection|accessdate=30 October 2018}} and was initially located next to the Manchester Infirmary in 1763.{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=1742&page=11|title=Cheadle Royal Hospital|publisher=National Archives|accessdate=30 October 2018}} It was designed by Richard Lane in the Elizabethan style and it opened as the Manchester Lunatic Hospital in 1766. It had 24 beds when it opened, but had over 100 patients by 1800.

The facility relocated to Cheadle, {{convert|10|mi}} to the south, as the Manchester Royal Hospital for the Insane, in 1849. Voluntary patients, known as boarders, were admitted from 1863. The hospital expanded through the construction of villas on the Cheadle site in the 1860s and through the acquisition of houses in Colwyn Bay in the 1870s. The site in Cheadle was initially {{convert|37|acres}}; in the following 80 years about {{convert|220|acres|abbr=on}} were added and the original part of the site subsequently became formal gardens and sport and recreation grounds. A convalescent hospital at Glan-y-Don, Colwyn Bay, was also established.The Book of Manchester and Salford; for the British Medical Association. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; pp. 146-47

The facility became Cheadle Royal Hospital in 1902 and North House, with accommodation for 80 additional patients, was opened in 1903.{{cite book|last1=Brockbank|first1=William|title=Portrait of a Hospital|date=1952|publisher=William Heinemann|location=London|pages=116–164}} It had provision for the treatment of 400 patients in 1928The Book of Manchester and Salford...for the...annual meeting of the British Medical Association...1929. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; p. 146-47 but it chose to remain private rather than joining the National Health Service in 1948. The hospital was acquired by its management team in 1997 and then by Priory Group in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/19988-cheadle-royal-sold-to-priory-in-affinity-deal|title=Cheadle Royal sold to Priory in Affinity deal|date=18 January 2010|publisher=Business Desk|accessdate=31 October 2018}}

Famous patients

Famous patients have included:

Johnny Briggs, cricketer{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Briggs, John |first=W. B. |last=Owen}}
Margot Bryant, actress{{IMDb name|0117177|Margot Bryant}}
Arthur Ransome, children's writer and journalist{{cite book|title=The Life of Arthur Ransome|first=Hugh |last=Brogan|publisher=Jonathan Cape|year=1984|page=433}}