Bit of a throwback from 2008 of sandhill park hospital near Taunton, was a very relaxed explore and went on a few occasions here 
most of the image are from my April 2008 visit.
We didn't go in the main building but stuck to the outer ones, i wish we did give it a go as when we came back for another visit someone had set fire to it
Pretty sure the site has now gone and is a housing estate, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Some brief History
Sandhill Park in Bishops Lydeard, Somerset was built as a country house around 1720. It was later used as a prisoner of war camp, home for handicapped children and later as a military and civilian hospital.
During world war I it was used as a prisioner of war camp for German and Austrian Officers. In 1919 it was converted by Somerset County Council into a home for handicapped children.
In August 1940 it became the 41st General Military Hospital, providing accommodation in tents and huts. From 1941 the hospital was leased to the Americans as a neurological hospital for over 1,000 patients in 32 new wards which were completed in 1942. The hospital remained in military use until 1944. The psychiatric hospital reopened under the National Health Service in 1948 and further buildings were constructed.
Some Pictures, please excuse the slightly overdone hdr on them
most of the image are from my April 2008 visit.We didn't go in the main building but stuck to the outer ones, i wish we did give it a go as when we came back for another visit someone had set fire to it
Pretty sure the site has now gone and is a housing estate, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Some brief History
Sandhill Park in Bishops Lydeard, Somerset was built as a country house around 1720. It was later used as a prisoner of war camp, home for handicapped children and later as a military and civilian hospital.
During world war I it was used as a prisioner of war camp for German and Austrian Officers. In 1919 it was converted by Somerset County Council into a home for handicapped children.
In August 1940 it became the 41st General Military Hospital, providing accommodation in tents and huts. From 1941 the hospital was leased to the Americans as a neurological hospital for over 1,000 patients in 32 new wards which were completed in 1942. The hospital remained in military use until 1944. The psychiatric hospital reopened under the National Health Service in 1948 and further buildings were constructed.
Some Pictures, please excuse the slightly overdone hdr on them
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