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Pen-y-Fal Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Abergavenny Monmouthshire opened in 1851 and closed in 1996. It held up to 1170 patients at its peak.The facility went under a variety of names:1851-1897 – Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum for Monmouthshire Herefordshire Radnorshire and Breconshire1897-1916 – Monmouthshire Lunatic Asylum 1916-1923 – Monmouthshire Mental Hospital 1923-1950 – Pen-Y-Val Hospital1950-1996 – Pen-y-Fal HospitalPen-y-Fal was designed initially to house 250 patients.
