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Parkside Hospital
Clock tower at former Parkside Hospital
Shown in Cheshire
Geography
Location	Macclesfield, England
Coordinates	53°15′46″N 2°09′22″W / 53.2628°N 2.1560°W / 53.2628; -2.1560
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Mental health
History
Founded	1871
Closed	1997
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

Parkside Hospital was a mental health facility at Victoria Road in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. The administration block survives and is a Grade II listed building.^[1]

The hospital, which was designed by Robert Griffiths in the Italianate style using a corridor-pavilion layout, opened as the Second Cheshire County Asylum in May 1871.^[2] A female epileptic block was completed in 1891 and a male epileptic block was completed in 1903.^[2] It became Cheshire County Mental Hospital in 1920 and joined the National Health Service as Parkside Hospital in 1948.^[3]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in January 1997.^[2] The main administration block was subsequently converted into apartments.^[2]

• Macclesfield District General Hospital

• Broadhurst, David A. (2007). A History of Parkside Hospital, Macclesfield 1871-1996 : A Sense of Perspective. Churnet Valley Books. ISBN 978-1897949283.