Leybourne Grange
Visited with Markr, Ali23 and Nik24 April 07
An asylum set in beautiful surroundings around an old manor house which
was the admin block.
The asylum is not contained in large blocks, but is seperated and
spread out over 270 acres of land into individual wards, hospital,
nurses accomadation and recreational areas.
The first buildings we came across was the main hall, completely
trashed and graffitied by the local kids.
Even so this is not a very grand hall like you find in so many other
asylums, the low plain ceiling and flat walls make this a very
uninspiring hall.
Next to the main hall was the salon, a seperate building but clearly a
modern extra with completely diffent construction to the rest of the
asylum.
With most of the buildings heavily boarded after years of being left
wide open, access to many buildings was not possible
We manage to get into a ward which is in excellent condition with no damage anywhere, apart from this the trip was just a long walk past the morgue, engineering, the workshops, boiler house, swimming pool, the manor houses and the other wards and nurse blocks.