Old map, undated though probably from the mid 1960s/70s, showing the Marchwell Stables as Occupational Therapy Units.

History of the Stables

Graylingwell farm was officially closed in 1956 and farmlands were taken over by a tenant farmer and, on the 25th of March 1957, the stables were given to the hospital. In Graylingwell’s 61st annual report, the refurbishment of the farm…

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The Farmhouse as it used to look

History of the Farmhouse

The lands of ‘Hauedstoke and Sumeresdale’ (Havenstoke and Summersdale) were bestowed to the diocese of Chichester at the death of Bishop Ralph Neville in 1244 and would remain bishopric lands, surviving the reformation and civil wars, until the 19th century.…

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