My first job after school was working in one of the large mental hospitals that housed upwards of a thousand residents.

Cecil Parkinson, Margaret Thatchers close ally, wrote a report that led to their closure, and to care in the community (or lack of care in the community).

I believe that this wall along Box Hill Recreation Ground is all that remains of the Old Abingdon Workhouse. Many large workhouses were turned into asylums and then mental hospitals, but not Abingdon.

Abingdon has always had lots of Care in the Community.