Mid Wales Hospital

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The Mid Wales Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Talgarth, Wales. It opened in 1906 and was formally known as the Brecon and Radnor Joint Asylum or Mid Wales Counties Mental Hospital. It is in echelon style (narrow arrow) for 1,000 patients.

The site was also home to the Mid and West Wales College of Nursing and Midwifery.

With new health legislations coming into force in the 1980s/90s and 'Care in the Community' the entire hospital was wound down and closed for good in the mid 1990s. Some facilities moved into nearby Bronllys Hospital (formally South Wales Sanitorium). This is still open and run by the NHS Powys Local Health Board, whose Headquarters are also based here. Although there have been recent rumours of this hospital too closing.

The vast estate is now privately owned after being sold for approx. £350,000 a number of years ago. The buildings have become run down and some derelict. There are signs of demolision throughout the site.

There have been plans to re-develop the site as business park, however the site lies on the edge of town in a rural area which makes things difficult.