List of almshouses in the United Kingdom

The following is a list of British almshouses:

Contents 1 England 1.1 Berkshire 1.2 Bristol 1.3 Buckinghamshire 1.4 Cheshire 1.5 Cornwall 1.6 Derbyshire 1.7 Essex 1.8 Herefordshire 1.9 Hertfordshire 1.10 Kent 1.11 Leicestershire 1.12 Lancashire 1.13 Lincolnshire 1.14 London 1.15 Norfolk 1.16 Northamptonshire 1.17 Nottinghamshire 1.18 Oxfordshire 1.19 Somerset 1.20 Staffordshire 1.21 Suffolk 1.22 Surrey 1.23 Warwickshire 1.24 West Sussex 1.25 Wiltshire 1.26 Yorkshire 2 Wales 3 External links

England

Berkshire

• Dixon's Almshouses, Aldermaston
• Donnington Hospital, Donnington, Bucklebury & Iffley, Oxon
• St Peter's Almshouses, Brimpton
• John Isbury's Almshouses, Lambourn
• Place's or Jacob Hardrett's Almshouses, Lambourn
• St Mary's Almshouses, Newbury
• Pearces Almshouses, Newbury
• Coxedd's Almshouses, Newbury
• Newbury Church & Almshouse Charity Almshouses, Newbury (Newtown Road & Harvest Green)
• Kimber's Almshouses, Newbury
• St Bartholomew's Hospital, also known as King John's Almshouses, Newbury
• Raymond's Almshouses, Newbury
• Essex Wynter Almshouses, Newbury
• Mabel Luke Almshouses, Newbury
• Robinson's Almshouses, Newbury
• Vachel Almshouses, Reading
• Andrew's Almshouses, also known as the Widow's House, Speenhamland

Bristol

• Colstons Almshouses (built 1691)
• Foster's Almshouses (founded 1482)
• Merchant Venturers Almshouses (built c.1696)
• St Nicholas's Almshouses (built 1652–1656)
• St Monica's Home of Rest, Cote Lane (1925)
• Bengough's Almshouses, Horfield Road
• Haberfield House, Hotwell Road
• Hill's Almshouses (now Stoneleigh House), Jacob's Wells Road
• Merchant Taylors' Almshouses, Merchant Street (1701)
• Holy Trinity Almshouses, Old Market Street
• St Ambrose Almshouses, Park Crescent

Buckinghamshire

• Thomas Hickman's Almshouses, Aylesbury (1695)

Cheshire

• Crewe Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1767)
• Harriet Hope Almshouses, Nantwich
• Old Maids' Almshouse, Nantwich (built 1705, now demolished)
• Tollemache Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1870)
• Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich
• Wilbraham's Almshouses, Acton (built 1613)
• Wilbraham's Almshouses, Nantwich
• Wood and Garnett Almshouses, Nantwich
• Wood and Garnett Almshouses, Willaston
• Wright's Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1638)

Cornwall

• Poads Trust Almshouses, Menheniot
• Morval Almshouses, Morval
• Maids House, Quethiock
• Buller Almshouses, Barker’s Hill, Saltash
• Sir William Moyle’s Almshouses, Gallery Lane, St Germans
• Earle’s Retreat, Trelawney Road, Falmouth
• Mr Lanyon’s Almshouses, Halvarras Road, Kea
• Hugh Boscawen Almshouses, Tregony Hill, Tregony
• Kensey Place, Dockacre Road, Launceston
• Padstow Almshouses, Middle Street, Padstow
• Fowey Almshouses, 1 Cobb’s Well, Fowey
• Rashleigh Almshouses, Polmear Hill, St. Austell
• Almshouses, St. Stephen in St. Stephen Brannel

Derbyshire

• London Road, Derby

Essex

• Barfield's Almshouses, Dedham
• John Henry Keene Memorial Homes, Chelmsford
• Shen Place Almshouses, Shenfield
• Sir William Petre Almshouses, Ingatestone
• South Weald Almshouses, South Weald

Herefordshire

• Coningsby Hospital
• The Lazarus Hospital
• Lingen Hospital
• Saint Ethelbert's Hospital
• Saint Giles' Hospital
• Williams' Hospital, Hereford (built 1601)
• Prices Almshouses
• Aubrey's Almshouses
• Rudhall Almshouses (Ross-on-Wye)

Hertfordshire

• Baish Almshouses, Stanstead Abbots
• Harrison Almshouses, Hertford
• Monson Almshouses, Broxbourne
• St Mary's Almshouses, Ware
• Bedford Almshouses, Watford
• Warners Almshouses, Hitchin
• Skynner's Almshouses, Hitchin
• The Cloisters, Radcliffe Rd, Hitchin

Kent

• Nuckell's Almshouse, St. Peters, Broadstairs
• St Thomas Almshouses, Gravesend
• Faversham Almshouses (built 1614)
• Richard Watts Almshouses, Rochester
• Foord Almshouses, Borstal
• Municipal Charities of Dover

Leicestershire

• Wyggeston's Hospital, Leicester

Lancashire

• Hartley Homes in Laneshawbridge, Colne Lancashire

Lincolnshire

• Lord Burghley's Almshouse, Stamford
• Browne's Hospital, Stamford
• St Peter's Callis, Stamford
• Snowden's Hospital, Stamford
• Truesdale's Hospital, Stamford
• Williamson's Hospital, Stamford
• Hopkin's Hospital, Stamford
• Fryer's Hospital, Stamford

London

• Greenwoods Almshouses, Camden
• St Giles in the Fields Almshouses, Covent Garden
• Thrale Almshouses, Streatham
• Waterman's Almhouses, Penge
• Abraham Dawes Almshouses, Putney
• Leathersellers' Close, Barnet

Norfolk

• Fulmerston's Almshouses, Thetford
• Great Hospital, Norwich (founded 1249)

Northamptonshire

• Montague Hospital, Weekley

Nottinghamshire

• Frances Longden Almshouses, Bramcote
• Almshouses, Bunny
• The United Charities of Abel Collin, Beeston
• Willoughby Almshouses, Cossall
• Sloswicke's Hospital, Churchgate, East Retford
• Holy Trinity Hospital, Hospital Road, East Retford
• Almshouses, Main Street, Grove
• Heath’s Hospital, Mansfield
• Plumptre Hospital (founded 1392), Nottingham
• Canning Terrace, Canning Circus, Nottingham
• William Woodsend Memorial Homes, Nottingham
• Miss Cullen’s Almshouses, Carrington, Nottingham
• George Wills Almshouses, Clifton, Nottingham
• Daybrook Almshouses, Arnold, Nottingham
• Mary Hardstaff Homes, Gedling, Nottingham
• Albert Ball Memorial Homes, Lenton, Nottingham
• Norris Almshouses, Sherwood, Nottingham
• Dorothy Boot Homes, Wilford, Nottingham
• Almshouses, Perlethorpe cum Budby

Oxfordshire

• Angier's Almshouses, Wallingford
• Bread & Beef Almshouses, Witney
• Castle's Almshouses, Guildenford
• Christ's Hospital, Abingdon
• Drayton Almshouses, Drayton
• Ewelme Hospital
• Geering's Alsmhouses, Harwell
• Goring Heath Almshouses, Goring Heath
• Holloway's Almshouses, Witney
• Tomkins Almshouses, Abingdon
• Twitty's Almshouses, Abingdon
• Warwick Almshouses, Burford

Somerset

• Blue House, Frome
• Gray's Almshouses, Taunton
• Helyar Almshouses, East Coker
• Partis College, Bath
• Sexey's Hospital, Bruton
• St John's Hospital, Bath
• St Margaret's Almshouses, Taunton

Staffordshire

• Guy's Almshouses, Tamworth

Suffolk

• The Downs Almshouses, Stoke-by-Nayland
• Dreyer Almshouses, Bungay
• The Almshouse, Wickhambrook
• Tooley's and Smart's Almshouses, Ipswich
• Trinity Hospital, Long Melford

Surrey

• Abbot's Hospital, [Guildford]
• St Mary's Almshouses, Godstone
• Whitgift Almshouses, Croydon
• Windsor Almshouses, Farnham (built 1619)

Warwickshire

• Church Street Almshouses, Stratford-upon-Avon
• Emily Payne and Elizabeth Saunders Homes, Stratford-upon-Avon
• Mary Newlands Almshouses, Stratford-upon-Avon
• John Roberts Almshouses, Stratford-upon-Avon
• Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick

West Sussex

• Sackville College, East Grinstead (built 1609)

Wiltshire

• Hungerford Almshouses, Corsham (built 1668)
• Somerset Hospital, Froxfield

Yorkshire

• Joseph Crossley's Almshouses, Halifax
• Sir Francis Crossley's Almshouses, Halifax
• Waterhouse Homes, Halifax
• Saltaire Almshouses
• Lady Lumley's Almshouses, Thornton-le-Dale
• Ingram's Hospital, York (built 1630–1640)

Wales

• Burton Almshouses, Newport, South Wales

External links

• List of English Almshouses associated with monastic institutions. (From Public Domain text, English Monastic Life.')
• Medieval Hospitals (Almshouses) of England, by Rotha Mary Clay. (Public Domain text, including daily life, care, and the 'Office at the Seclusion of a Leper'.)