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This is a list of British almshouses. It includes historial almshouses (some of which are no longer in use as charitable housing) and new-build almshouses.

England

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Bedfordshire

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Berkshire

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Donnington Hospital
Jesus Hospital, Bray
St Bartholomew's Hospital, Newbury
  • Andrew's Almshouses, also known as the Widow's House, Speenhamland
  • Westende Almshouses, Wokingham[2]
  • Dixon's Almshouses, Aldermaston (built 1706)[3]
  • Donnington Hospital, Bucklebury & Iffley, Oxon (founded 1393)[4]
  • Henry Lucas Hospital, Wokingham (1663–2001)
  • Langley Almshouses, Langley Marish (founded 1617)[5][6]
  • Jesus Hospital, Bray (founded 1609, built 1627)[7][8]
  • John Isbury's Almshouses, Lambourn (founded 1502, rebuilt 1852)[9]
  • Place's or Jacob Hardrett's Almshouses, Lambourn (founded 1627, rebuilt 1827)[10]
  • The Haven of Rest Almshouses, Maidenhead[2]
  • St Mary's Almshouses, Newbury (built c.1970)[11]
  • Pearces Almshouses, Newbury (founded 1671, relocated 1885)[12]
  • Old Hunt's Almshouses, Newbury (endowed 1727, rebuilt 1817)[13]
  • Coxedd's Almshouses, Newbury (founded 1690)[14]
  • Newbury Church & Almshouse Charity Almshouses, Newbury (Newtown Road & Harvest Green)
  • Kimber's Almshouses, Newbury
  • Raymond's Almshouses, Newbury
  • Essex Wynter Almshouses, Newbury
  • Mabel Luke Almshouses, Newbury
  • Robinson's Almshouses, Newbury
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, also known as King John's Almshouses, Newbury (founded before 1200, built 1618,[15] reconstructed c.1698)[16]
  • St Peter's Almshouses, Brimpton (built 1854)[17]
  • Seymour Almshouses, Langley Marish (founded 1679, extended 1687)[5][18]
  • Vachel Almshouses, Reading (founded 1634, rebuilt 1864–1867)[19]

Bristol

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Merchant Venturers Almshouses, Bristol

Buckinghamshire

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  • The Almshouse Charity of Sir Ralph Verney (1st Baronet, d. 1696), Middle Claydon, Buckingham (1654)
  • The Bishop Kings' Almshouses, Worminghall (1675)
  • Christ's Hospital, Buckingham
  • Miss Day's Almhouses, Amersham
  • Lady Dodd's Cottages, Ellesborough
  • Thomas Hickman's Almshouses, Aylesbury (1695)
  • Weedon's Almshouses, Chesham
  • Sir William Drake's Almhouse, Amersham
  • Dormer Almshouses (Hospital), Wing (misdated as 1569)[24]
  • Winwood Almshouses, Quainton (1687)
  • Stafford Almshouse, Shenley (1654)
  • Revis Almshouses, Newport Pagnell (1755)
  • Alice Carter's Almshouse, Brill (1591)
  • Dormer Almshouses, Hughendon
  • Finch Almshouses, Ravenstone
  • Ann Hopkins Smith Almshouses, Olney (1819)
  • Goodwin Almshouses, Waddesdon
  • St Scholastica's Retreat, Princes Risborough (founded in 1861 at Clapton, moved to Princes Risborough 1972)

Cambridgeshire

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King St Almshouses, Cambridge
South's Almshouses, Buckden
  • Burberry Homes, Buckden
  • Hospital of St. Anthony and St. Eligius, known as Spital House, a new-build almshouse in Cambridge
  • Countess of Hardwicke Almshouses, Arrington
  • Jakenett's Almshouses, Cambridge
  • John Street Almshouses, Cambridge (new-build)
  • Jenyns House, March Almshouse and Pension Charity, March
  • Kings Street Almshouses, Cambridge
  • Lady Peyton's Almshouses, Isleham
  • Mansfield Almshouses, Chesterton, Cambridge
  • Moretons Charity Almhouses, Cottenham (built 1853)
  • Parsons Almshouses, Ely
  • Perse Almshouses, Cambridge
  • Pilgrim's Rest Almshouses, St Ives
  • South's Almshouses, Buckden (built 1850)
  • St John's Almshouses, Huntingdon (built 1847)
  • Storey's Almshouses, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge
  • The Cambridge Royal Albert Homes, Cambridge

Cheshire

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Tollemache Almshouses, Nantwich
Wilbraham's Almshouses, Nantwich

Cornwall

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Padstow Almshouses

Cumbria

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Derbyshire

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Owlfield Almshouses, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Chandos Pole House, Barlborough
  • Chandos Pole House, Church Street, Barlborough, registered as Barlborough Hospital[25]
  • Clergy Widows' Almshouses, also known as Spalden's Almshouses, School Lane, Ashbourne
  • Cooper's Almshouses, 1–11 Derby Road, Ashbourne
  • London Road Almshouses, Derby
  • Matthew Smiths Almshouses, Belper[26]
  • Owlfield and Pegge's Almshouses, Ashbourne
  • Thomas Cook Almshouses, Melbourne

Devon

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Spurways Almshouses, Crediton, Devon
  • Almshouses, New Street, Great Torrington
  • Burrough's Almshouses, Church Lane, Broadclyst
  • Dartmouth United Charities Almshouses, Dartmouth[27]
  • Colmer Almshouses, Ford
  • Cockington Almshouses, Cockington Lane, Cockington
  • Gilberd's Almshouses, Old Exeter Road, Newton Abbot (new build)
  • John Greenway Gardens, Gold Street, Tiverton
  • Lady Lucy Reynell's Clergy Widows' Houses, Torquay Road, Newton Abbot
  • Mackrell's Almshouses, Wolborough Street, Newton Abbot
  • Penrose's Almshouses, Lichdon Street, Barnstaple, built by Richard Beaple; they were Grade I listed in 1951.[28]
  • Robert Hayman Almshouses, East Street, Newton Abbot
  • Salem Almshouses, Trinity Street, Barnstaple
  • Spurways Almshouses, Park Street, Crediton
  • Strange & Armory Almshouses, Bridge Plats Way, Londonderry, Bideford (new build)
  • St Catherine's Almshouses and Chapel, Catherine Street, Exeter (ruins – founded by Canon John Stevens DD Doctor of Physick in 1457 to house 13 poor men)
  • Mary Parminter Charity, Point in View, Summer Lane Exmouth

Dorset

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Sir Anthony Ashley's Almshouses, Wimbourne St Giles, Dorset

Durham

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Fox Almshouses in Norton, County Durham

The largest almshouse charity in the UK. Covers the entirety of the Durham coalfield, with approximately 1800 homes in management.

Essex

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  • Barfield's Almshouses, Dedham
  • Barker's Almshouses, Dedham
  • Dunton's Almshouses, Dedham
  • John Henry Keene Memorial Homes, Chelmsford
  • Shen Place Almshouses, Shenfield
  • Sir William Petre Almshouses, Ingatestone
  • South Weald Almshouses, South Weald
  • Fuller House (The Almshouses), Church Road, Stansted Mountfitchet

Gloucestershire

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  • Almshouses, Great Badminton
    Great Badminton Almshouses, Gloucestershire
  • Christopher & Sarah Bowley's Almshouses, Tetbury
  • Newlands almshouses, Newlands
  • Perry & Dawes Almshouses, Wotton-under-Edge
  • St Lawrence's Almshouses, Cirencester
  • The Gorse Almshouses, Coleford

Hampshire

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  • Deane's Almshouses, Basingstoke: see Grade II* listed buildings in Basingstoke and Deane
  • Forbes Almshouses, East Meon[33]
  • Geffery's House, Hook[34]
  • Thorner's Homes, Southampton: founded by Robert Thorner in his Will of 1690, the first almshouses opened in 1793, after much arguing with the trustees of the time, over other gifts in his Will, such as to Harvard College. The charity houses poor widows and single women of limited financial means over 55 years of age.[35]
  • Hospital of St Cross, Winchester: said to be the oldest charitable institution in England. Founded by Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, in 1136. Home for 25 elderly men, known as Brothers, under a Master. They belong to the Order of the Hospital of St Cross founded c.1132 and wear black trencher hats and robes with silver Jerusalem cross badge. The Order of Noble Poverty, founded 1445, wear claret trencher hats and robes with silver cardinal's badge in memory of Cardinal Beaufort.[36]
  • St John's Almshouses, Winchester[37]

Herefordshire

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Hertfordshire

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Buntingford almshouses, Buntingford, Hertfordshire, with war memorial in the foreground

Isle of Wight

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  • Hopsley's Almshouses, Crocker Street, Newport

Kent

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The Hospital of Sir John Hawkins, Knight, in Chatham
St. Catherine's Hospital, Rochester

Lancashire

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Lathom House Almshouses

Leicestershire

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Lyddington Bede House
  • Bede House (or Maison Dieu), Burton Street founded in 1640 by Robert Hudson (created a baronet by Charles II) and remodelled in 1875, Melton Mowbray
  • Lyddington Bede House (originally Bishop's Palace, sold at Reformation as town house and then became a almshouse – building open and run by English Heritage), Lyddington
  • Misses Moore's Almshouses, Appleby Magna, built in 1839
  • Powell & Welch Almshouse Charity Bitteswell
  • Ravenstone Court, Coalville
  • Trinity Hospital Almshouses, The Newarke, Leicester
  • Wyggeston's Hospital, Leicester see William Wyggeston

Lincolnshire

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  • Bede Houses, Louth
  • Orme Almshouses, Louth
  • Bede Houses, Tattershall
  • Browne's Hospital, Stamford, founded in 1485 and now Grade II* listed[43]
  • Dawson's Almshouses, Grantham
  • Fryer's Hospital, Stamford
  • Lord Burghley's Almshouse, Stamford, founded 1597 to house 13 old men, one of whom was to serve as warden. Founded on site of the Medieval Hospital of St John the Baptist and St Thomas the Martyr which was founded c 1190 under Peterborough Abbey for the use of pilgrims and the poor. In disuse by the c16 when only the chapel continued in use. Bought in 1549 by William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
  • St Peter's Callis, Stamford
  • Snowden's Hospital, Stamford
  • Truesdale's Hospital, Stamford
  • Williamson's Hospital, Stamford
  • Hopkin's Hospital, Stamford
  • The Spalding Town Husbands, over forty properties across the town, many new-builds, run by one charitable organisation
  • Long Sutton Consolidated

Greater London

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Barnet

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Lawrence Campe Almshouses

Bexley

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  • Styleman's Almshouses (built in 1755)

Bromley

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Free Watermen and Lightermen's Almshouses, Penge

Camden

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Chelsea

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  • Royal Chelsea Hospital, retirement & nursing home established in 1682 by Charles II for 300 veterans of the British Army

Croydon

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Enfield

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Greenwich

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Trinity Hospital

Hackney

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Hammersmith and Fulham

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St Joseph's Almshouses, Brook Green

Haringey

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Hounslow

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Sermon's Almshouses, Isleworth, Hounslow
Mary Tate's Almshouses, Mitcham
Houblon's Almshouses, Richmond
Tollemache Almshouses, Ham
  • Butler's Almshouses, Byfield Road, Isleworth
  • Farnell's Almshouses, St John's Road, Isleworth
  • Hopkin Morris Homes of Rest, Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick[51]
  • Ingram's Almshouses, Mill Plat, Isleworth
  • Sermon's Almshouses, Twickenham Road, Isleworth

Kingston upon Thames

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Lambeth

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  • Caron's Almshouses, Fentiman Road, SW8[52]
  • City of London Almshouses (Gresham Almshouses), Ferndale Road, Brixton[53]
  • Thrale Almshouses, Streatham
  • Trinity Homes (Bailey's Almshouses), Acre Lane, Brixton

Lewisham

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Merton

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Richmond upon Thames

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Southwark

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Tower Hamlets

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Wandsworth

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Westminster

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  • Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row

Norfolk

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Great Hospital, Norwich

Northamptonshire

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Almshouses, Titchmarsh
  • Almshouses, Church Brampton (built in 1854 by Earl Spencer in memory of his parents, for six poor widows)
  • Bede House, Higham Ferrers (built in 1423 by Archbishop Henry Chichele, for 12 men and one woman to look after them)
  • Sawyers Almshouses, Sheep Street, Kettering (built in 1688)
  • Raynesford Almshouses, 1–4 Church Street, Dallington, Northampton (founded 1673 by Richard Raynsford, a lawyer who became Chief Justice of the King's Bench under Charles II and lived at the manor house, buried in the church,)
  • Jesus Hospital, Hospital Hill (off Market Square), Rothwell (built in 1593 by Owen Ragsdale, schoolmaster of the grammar school (which was on the site of the library and closed in the 1970s), for 24 Almsmen and a Principal, still an almshouse but with 2 three storey extensions built in 1830s. The original building now has four larger flats, the extensions have six small flats, there is also a Warden's house (late c18) and opposite the Matron's cottage (1840) which is rented out. The trust also owns the adjoining building, Home Farm, and the car park area outside which adjoins Market Square)
  • Ponder's Almshouses, possibly the row of six houses on Glendon Road, opposite Ponder Street or where the bungalows on Ponder Street are now, Rothwell, Northamptonshire – 6 small tenements erected in or about 1714 by Thomas Ponder and three roods of land adjoining for poor widows of Rothwell
  • Almshouses, Wellingborough Road, Rushden (built in 1883 in memory of Frederick Maitland Sartoris by his father)
  • Pickering Hospital, 6 cottages erected and endowed for support of 8 poor persons with preference for spinsters or widows Almshouses, Titchmarsh (dating from 1756)
  • former Montague Hospital, Stamford Road, Weekley (dated 1611: now a private house, used as Mr Collin's Vicarage in Keira Knightley's Film "Pride & Prejudice")
  • Almshouses, Creaton (dating from 1825 and rebuilt in 1897)
  • The Hospital of St John Baptist and St John Evangelist (aka St John's Hospital), Bridge Street, Northampton (founded circa 1140), sold in 1870 to a Mr Mullinger who gave it to Roman Catholic Church. Refounded 1876 at Weston Favell as a convalescent hospital and is now a restaurant.
  • St Thomas' Hospital Building, 74 St Giles Street, Northampton (founded 1450), on site of what is currently the Plough Hotel, for 12 poor people. In 1654 Sir John Langham funded an additional 6 people and Richard Massingberd another 1. Building abandoned 1834, demolished in 1874 during road widening for the new cattle market and its residents moved to a new building on St Giles Street. The new almshouse with distinctive castellations and stucco 2 storey front built in 1834. In addition is plaque remembering the important charity own, and still own, the whole block above 39 St Giles Street.
  • 1–6 Crick Road, West Haddon (built 1870 for retired people from West Haddon)
  • Parson Latham's Hospital in Oundle. Established in the 1600s by Parson Nicholas Latham. Situated on North Street in Oundle. Houses up to 14 ladies from within the Parishes of Oundle and Polebrook. 8 flats within the Grade 2 listed main building and 6 further new built bungalows in the grounds. Educational Grants are given annually to students from the Parish of Oundle and Polebrook.

Nottinghamshire

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Albert Ball Memorial Homes
Willoughby Almshouses, Cossall
Winnings Almshouses, Welbeck Abbey, Worksop

Oxfordshire

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Ewelme almshouses

Shropshire

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Somerset

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City of Wells Almshouses, Priest Row
Grays Almshouses, Taunton

Staffordshire

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Suffolk

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Surrey

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Sussex

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Percy and Wagner Almshouses

East Sussex

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  • Percy and Wagner Almshouses, 1–12 Lewes Road, Hanover, Brighton; dating from 1795 and now Grade II listed[94]
  • Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames Almhouses, St Leonard's-on-Sea, Hastings

West Sussex

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Sackville College from the High Street

Warwickshire

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Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick
  • Nicholas Chamberlaine Almshouses, Bedworth[95]
  • Gramer Cottages, including James Gramer Almshouses, Mancetter
  • Guild of the Holy Cross, Church Street Almshouses, Stratford-upon-Avon, founded 1417/18 for old and needy members of the guild and in 1553 transferred to Stratford upon Avon Corporation for 24 elderly townsfolk
  • Emily Payne and Elizabeth Saunders Homes, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Mary Newlands Almshouses, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • John Roberts Almshouses, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick
  • The Guild Cottages, Bowling Green Street, Warwick – seven almshouses founded in 1991 by the combined Thomas Oken & Nicholas Eyffler Charity
  • The Almshouses, Castle Hill, Warwick – four almshouses founded in c16 by Nicholas Eyffler
  • The Almshouses, Castle Hill, Warwick – six almshouses added to the four above, founded in c16 by Thomas Oken
  • Stoneleigh Old Almshouses, Stoneleigh (founded in 1576 by Sir Thomas & Lady Alice Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey for five unmarried men and five women)
  • Widow's Charity Houses, High Street, Kenilworth (founded in 1644 for poor widows by George Denton of Warwick)
  • Leamington Hastings Almshouse, Leamington Hastings (founded in 1608 for eight poor people by Humphrey Davis, schoolmaster)
  • Rose Cottage, Banbury Road, Ettington, once thatched and now a private home
  • Lawrence Sheriff Almshouses in Rugby

West Midlands

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Birmingham

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Walmley Almshouses, Royal Sutton Coldfield

Coventry

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Ford's Hospital, Coventry
  • Bond's Hospital, built in 1506[97] and now Grade II* listed[98]
  • Ford's Hospital, traditionally known as Grey Friars Hospital; Grade I listed,[99][100] it was founded in 1509.
  • Lady Herbert's Homes (built in 1935 and 1937), Lady Herbert's Gardens, Chauntry Place
  • Bond's Lodge (founded 2020 Coventry Church (Municipal) Charities Three Storey, 45 Self Contained Apartments with large Courtyard Garden), Hill Street

Dudley

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  • Almshouses, Church Road, Old Swinford
  • Peter Harris Almshouses, Seager's Lane, Brierley Hill
  • Sedgley Almshouses, Ettymore Road, Sedgley

Sandwell

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Akrill Almshouses, West Bromwich
  • Akrill Homes, West Bromwich
  • Harbourne Parish Lands Charity, almshouses around Hales Lane and Taylors Lane, Smethwick
  • Henry Mitchell Almshouses (Harborne Cottages), Coopers Lane, Smethwick

Solihull

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Walsall

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Harper's Almshouses, Walsall

Wolverhampton

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Worcestershire

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Wiltshire

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Yorkshire

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Beamsley Hospital
Nettleton's Almshouses, Huddersfield, designed by William Henry Crossland
Sir Joseph Terry Almshouses, York

East Yorkshire

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  • Almshouses, 14 College Street, Kingston-upon-Hull
  • Beverley Consolidated Charity is an amalgamation of several local charities running almshouses in the town.

Historical almshouses include: Ann Routh's, Keldgate; Bede Houses, Lairgate; Charles Warton's, Minster Moorgate; Elizabeth Westoby's, Keldgate; Ellen Kennington's, Toll Gavel; Maisons de Dieu, Morton Lane; almshouses, Railway Street; William Parker's, Woodlands.

Newbuild almshouses include: Caroline Walker's, New Walkergate; Christopher Hobson Place, Kitchen Lane; Citadel Court, Wilbert Lane; Crown Mews, Hengate; David Gray Jackson's, Cartwright Lane; Eric Bielby Close, Railway Street; James Arthur Smedley's, Ladygate; Keldgate Bar, Keldgate; Leconfield Close, Keldgate; Porter Place, Trinity Lane.

North Yorkshire

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South Yorkshire

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West Yorkshire

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York

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Scotland

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Wales

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Powis Almshouses, Chepstow

Northern Ireland

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Seaforde Almshouses, County Down

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