Archaeology Notes

Event ID 689034

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO40SW 6.00 42494 03575

(NO 4249 0356) Hospital (NR)

OS 6" map (1938).

NO40SW 6.01 NO 42537 03563 Cottages

Largo - In 1659, a hospital for old men of the name of Wood was founded by a Mr John Wood.

OSA 1792.

Wood's Hospital, Kirkton, Largo. The original building was begun in 1665. By 1829 it had fallen into a bad state of repair, and in 1830 a new building was erected.

A S Cunningham 1913

The existing Wood's Hosptial, now an Old People's Home, is the one built around 1830 (Caretaker, Wood's Hospital). It is an unpretentious building of two storeys. A wall plaque in the entrance hall gives similar information to that by Statistical Account (OSA).

No trace of the original hospital is to be seen.

Visited by OS (EGC) 16 October 1962.