General Discussion

Does anyone have any knowledge of when (date) and for what reason(s) a hospital was first built at Langdon?

All I can find is this http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=2966 

and this

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/hospitals-and-asylums/13853-langdon-hospital-dawlish-devon-december-2009-a.html#.Vwt0d-FZ1U0

There is also this TDC document dated March 2010 concerning whether  the land at

Langdon Hospital is suitable (or not) for development.

http://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=24890&p=0

In the 1930s, properties at Dix's Field, Exeter and Steepway, Paignton were purchased for use as domestic training hostels for young women. A farm hostel was founded on Langton Farm at Dawlish and a seaside holiday home was opened. In 1948, the institution was transferred to the National Health Service, and became merged into the Royal Western Counties Institution Hospital Group, which coordinated all the residential mental deficiency services. The institution came under the control of Devon Area Health Authority from 1974, and of Exeter Health Authority from 1982.

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/0fd8d2fb-cfd3-442e-934a-66ce68535b5e