Spring has arrived in South Horrington

Accompanied on this occasion by Doris, my DJI Mini 3 Pro I am off on my early morning walk around South Horrington Village, formerly the grounds of Mendip Hospital.

Mendip Hospital opened in 1848 as the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Horrington, near Wells, in the English county of Somerset.

As a county asylum, it was replaced by Tone Vale Hospital in 1897, but it continued to house long-stay elderly and mentally infirm patients. It finally closed in 1991, when the buildings were converted into houses and apartments.

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