| Cheadle Royal Hospital | |
| Location: | Heald Green |
| Region: | Greater Manchester |
| State: | England |
| Healthcare: | Private |
| Type: | Specialist |
| Speciality: | Mental Health |
| Emergency: | No |
| Founded: | 1763 |
| Map Type: | Greater Manchester |
| Coordinates: | 53.3748°N -2.2211°W |
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.
The hospital was founded at a time when only two other similar institutions existed in England (Bethlem and St Luke's)[1] and was initially located next to the Manchester Infirmary in 1763.[2] It was designed by Richard Lane in the Elizabethan style and it opened as the Manchester Lunatic Hospital in 1766.[1] It had 24 beds when it opened, but had over 100 patients by 1800.[1]
The facility relocated to Cheadle, to the south, as the Manchester Royal Hospital for the Insane, in 1849.[1] Voluntary patients, known as boarders, were admitted from 1863.[1] 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.[1] The site in Cheadle was initially ; in the following 80 years about 220acres 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.[3]
The facility became Cheadle Royal Hospital in 1902[1] and North House, with accommodation for 80 additional patients, was opened in 1903.[4] It had provision for the treatment of 400 patients in 1928[5] but it chose to remain private rather than joining the National Health Service in 1948.[1] The hospital was acquired by its management team in 1997 and then by Priory Group in 2010.[6]
Famous patients have included: