Birch Hill Hospital
Birch Hill Hospital was a health facility in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. It was managed by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.History
The facility has its origins in the Dearnley Union Workhouse which was designed by George Woodhouse and Edward Potts and opened in November 1877. An infirmary was added at the north of the site in 1902. It became the Dearnley Public Assistance Institution in 1930 and joined the National Health Service as Birch Hill Hospital in 1948. After services transferred to Rochdale Infirmary, Birch Hill Hospital closed in January 2013. The site was subsequently sold to Persimmon for residential use: the developers have retained the clock tower as part of the new development.
