West Park Insane Asylum

West Park Asylum as it stood summer 2009.

It closed in the mid 90's and is now the last survivor of a group of five asylums in the area (Epsom, just outside London) These were West Park, St Ebbas, Manor, Horton and Long Grove, together known as the Epsom cluster.

West Park is made up of around 10 seperate buildings spreading out from a central admin block. Females on one side, males on the other. It housed over 2000 patients at one time.

Patients were grouped by disorder, with each block keeping patients contained in isolated communities. These ranged from epileptics to acute psychotics, the most dangerous being kept furthest from the admin block.

The seperate buildings are connected by outdoor corridors so patients never had to enter the outside world, even when moving between locations.

It has a very eerie atmosphere, especially because of the amount of belongings left behind.

Anyone thinking of going, I advise against it - crawling with security, laser fences, CCTV and VERY dangerous, as the floors are falling through now and it's full of asbestos.

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[tdude129]

Can i still look round or has it been knocked down?

[uuufail]

@tdude129 it's being knocked down right now

[tribalsupremacist]

5 star-rated & favorited ! Excellent slideshow ! Chilling soundtrack. Great collection of photos. Very impressive ! Kudos !

[X0UK]

hey nice job very good vid. by the way they seemed to have taken away the cameras and the laser fence things, but the security personel is still there. ive tryed to ge into the building countles times only onece have i. really want to get some more pics before it gets knocked down its quite sad its sad

[NesBoy1985]

@howlingserenity To depress the patients more probably who knows. Abandoned hospitals are creepy either way

[TheBarbie1969]

this music reminds me of the Shining 

[cheater87]

Awesome audio, where did you get it?

[randypcole]

Nice work!

[fromthecentre]

Excellent work.

[manutd689908]

Very good video. The last still was very chilling. Liked.

[howlingserenity]

why do they always pick icky colors to paint asylums?