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Originally Posted by garinda
Thanks.
I was only rooting about on the web, but could find no mention of Kirkstall Abbey's boundary ending at Bedlam.
Also, the name wouldn't have been known until at least 1247, when the first Order of the Star of Bethlehem was founded in London, to care for the mentally ill.
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I suspect that Bedlam (Green Haworth) was the generic name applied for Accy's early loony bin, although I would not like to put a date on it's founding or it's dissolution. The original Bedlam is now the site of Liverpool St railway station in London, one entrance of which has a statue where you can regularly see old men and women weep. However, Bedlam has moved over the centuries and it's location up to the 1920's is now the Imperial War Museum.